ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,611, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Base station device, application function node, and communication method" was invented by Hiroaki Takano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station device (20) includes a control unit (23). The control unit (23) performs operations including: receiving an acquisition request, which is a request for acquiring beam information related to a PDU session established with a terminal device (40); and transmitting beam group information including at least one piece of the beam information, the transmission being performed in association with the PDU session in respon...