ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,013, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Communications devices and methods" was invented by Yassin Aden Awad (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a communications device to provide a ranging-based service which uses a proximity between the communications device and at least one other communications device is provided. The method comprises transmitting a discovery signal to the at least one other communications device; receiving a r...