ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,013, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Communications devices and methods" was invented by Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Kazuyuki Shimezawa (Basingstoke, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications device including a receiver configured to receive signals within sidelink communications resources of a plurality of resource pool instances of a sidelink interface, each of the resource pool instances being arranged in time in accordance with a resource pool periodicity, and a controller. The controller is configured in combination with the receiver to switch at a first...