US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Nov. 18 for "Communication devices and methods with beamforming training" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,692, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication devices and methods with beamforming training" was invented by Dana Ciochina (Stuttgart, Germany), Thomas Handte (Stuttgart, Germany), Nabil Sven Loghin (Stuttgart, Germany) and Felix Fellhauer (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device, e.g. an access point, for RF-based communication with another communication device, e.g. a station, comprises antenna circuitry configured to transmit and receive RF signals and beamforming circuitry configured to perform beamforming. The beamforming circuitry controls the antenna circuitry...