ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,291, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Yuichi Morioka (Tokyo) and Yusuke Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method capable of realizing more efficient communication.There is provided a communication device including a base station including a control section configured to determine whether an existing standard-compliant terminal is connected to the base station in a usage frequency band that is a frequency band to be used by the base station on the basis of ex...