ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,060, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wireless communication device and method, and wireless communication terminal and method" was invented by Shigeru Sugaya (Tokyo) and Kosuke Aio (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a wireless communication device and method, and a wireless communication terminal and method that enable a plurality of access points to efficiently collect receipt acknowledgments of data from respective communication terminals. The wireless communication device coordinately transmits, with one or more first other wireless communication devices, data addr...