ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,524, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Access points and communication methods" was invented by Thomas Handte (Stuttgart, Germany) and Dana Ciochina (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first access point comprises circuitry configured to generate AP schedule information that schedules, for subsequent data communication phases, the assignment of resources to one or more second access points to indicate which resources are assigned to a second access point for data communication in a subsequent data communication phase with its respective associated second stations, wherein the AP schedule i...