ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,950, issued on June 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communications devices and methods" was invented by Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Kazuyuki Shimezawa (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications device including a receiver configured to receive signals from one or more of a plurality of other communications devices within sidelink communications resources of a plurality of instances of a resource pool of a sidelink interface, the resource pool being formed of a plurality of time-divided slots and a plurality of frequency-divided regions, and a controller. The co...