ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,545, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal device, application server, receiving method, and transmitting method" was invented by Hiroto Otsuki (Tokyo) and Daisuke Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device (10) includes a transceiver (110), a camera (140), a display (130), and a processor (150). The processor (150) determines a first synchronization signal whose radio quality satisfies a predetermined threshold from a plurality of synchronization signals beamformed and transmitted from the base station (20), and reports the first synchronization signal to the base station (20). The ...