ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,211, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication device, communication method, and communication program" was invented by Hiroki Matsuda (Tokyo) and Naoki Kusashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device is a device in which a radio connection state with another communication device changes from an unconnected state to a predetermined connected state by performing a predetermined connection procedure. The communication device acquires predetermined information for transmitting data to the another communication device in the unconnected state. The communication device then transmit...