US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 4 for "Communication device and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,336, issued on March 4, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Hiromasa Uchiyama (Tokyo), Naoki Kusashima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuyuki Shimezawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device that operates as a terminal under control of a base station, includes: a communication unit that transmits and receives wireless signals; and a control unit that controls transmission of data using a predetermined resource pool by the communication unit. The control unit determines implementation of relay communication for a packet within the predetermin...