ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,042, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method for low latency communications" was invented by Hideo Namba (Sakai City, Japan), Atsushi Shirakawa (Sakai City, Japan) and Hiromichi Tomeba (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio communication apparatus that simultaneously uses multiple radio channels, the radio communication apparatus includes a radio communicator, and a radio controller, wherein the radio controller uses multiple transmission methods, at least one of the multiple transmission methods is a method for reducing latency,...