ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,203, issued on April 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Kosuke Aio (Tokyo), Yusuke Tanaka (Tokyo) and Ryuichi Hirata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device that performs wireless communication using a plurality of links includes a common data processing unit that includes a common storage unit of a cache type storing success/failure of acquisition of packets received on the plurality of links, and that performs common data processing on packets received on individual links, and a control unit that controls transmission of a response signal...