ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,338, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multiple power class operation" was invented by Erik Bengtsson (Eslov, Sweden), Fredrik Rusek (Eslov, Sweden), Kun Zhao (Malmo, Sweden), Olof Zander (Sodra Sandby, Sweden) and Rickard Ljung (Helsingborg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal (10) configured for communication with a wireless network (100), the terminal comprising: -a transceiver (313) for communicating with the wireless network; -logic (310) configured to control the transceiver to transmit (510), to the wireless network, a power class capability indication identifying communication capabi...