ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,135, issued on March 4, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Shigeru Sugaya (Tokyo), Ren Sugai (Tokyo), Yusuke Tanaka (Tokyo) and Kosuke Aio (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device and a communication method for allowing a communication terminal to be able to search for access points within a short time are provided. A communication device operating as an access point in a wireless network transmits a beacon signal at a predetermined beacon interval on an operation channel selected from available frequency channels. In addition, the communicatio...