ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,391, issued on April 21, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods for addressing acknowledgement collisions" was invented by Kazuyuki Shimezawa (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving one or more first downlink data blocks and one or more second downlink data blocks, for each of the one or more first downlink data blocks and one or more second downlink data blocks determining an acknowledgement status, the acknowledgement statu...