ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,162, issued on April 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication devices and methods" was invented by Thomas Handte (Stuttgart, Germany) and Dana Ciochina (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication device for transmitting data to another communication device, the communication device comprising circuitry configured to obtain a truncation notification indicating that an ongoing transmission of a data unit is to be truncated; in response to the truncation notification, determine, based on the number of unprocessed modulation input bits of the data unit, a remaining bit length of a modulation input ...