ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,690, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus for transmitting data in interleave division multiple access (IDMA) system" was invented by Ryota Kimura (Tokyo) and Yifu Tang (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires an information block generated from transmission data for a user and subjected to error correction coding, and an interleaving unit that interleaves a bit sequence of the information block using an interleaver unique to the user. The interleaving unit interleaves the bit sequence by interleaving each of two or more parti...