ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,468, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Mobile Communications Inc. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for a mobile telecommunications system" was invented by Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Basuki Priyanto (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to perform a transport channel processing chain, the transport channel processing chain comprising a sub-carrier puncturing function, the sub-carrier puncturing function comprising punctur...