ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,373, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Telecommunications apparatus and methods" was invented by Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of conveying an allocation of radio resources on a radio channel for communicating data between a base station and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system, wherein the radio channel spans a channel frequency bandwidth divided into frequency resource units which may be selectively allocated for communicating data between the base station and the terminal devi...