US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 29 for "Terminal device, base station device, and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,085, issued on July 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal device, base station device, and method" was invented by Naoki Kusashima (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromasa Uchiyama (Tokyo), Hiroki Matsuda (Tokyo) and Yifu Tang (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device including a control unit that transmits first resource information, which indicates a radio resource available to another communication device among radio resources of which access rights are acquired by performing carrier sense, on an uplink or a sidelink."

The patent was filed on April 10, 2024, under Application No. 18/632,188.

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