ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,542, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods, communications devices, and infrastructure equipment" was invented by Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Receiving, from a wireless network, signals on one or more downlink channels, each of the downlink channels being within one of a plurality of downlink transmission occasions, determining, for each of the downlink transmission occasions, a value of an acknowledgement bit indicating whether or not one of the signals has been successfully received on one of the downlink channels within that downlink transmission occasi...