ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,542, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Ryuichi Hirata (Tokyo), Yusuke Tanaka (Tokyo) and Kazuyuki Sakoda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a communication device that performs multi-link operation by synchronous transmission.A communication device includes a communication unit that performs communication by a first link and a second link, and a control unit that controls a communication operation by the communication unit, in which the control unit sets an occupancy period of the second link on a basis of transmission suppressio...