ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,504, issued on July 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal apparatus and method" was invented by Jungo Goto (Tokyo) and Yasuo Kubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus including one or more antenna modules, and a control unit that controls a process for changing a receivable direction of the antenna module used for measurement while fixing a shield state of the antenna module as a state produced by a shield, and a process for measuring downlink communication quality according to the change of the receivable direction of the antenna module used for the measurement."

The patent was filed on Jan. 23...