US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Feb. 3 for "Multi-access point communication devices and methods for coordinated join transmission with reduced backhaul requirements" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,578, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multi-access point communication devices and methods for coordinated join transmission with reduced backhaul requirements" was invented by Thomas Handte (Stuttgart, Germany) and Dana Ciochina (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents an efficient backhaul operation that minimizes data rate requirements of the backhaul. Backhaul information is transmitted from a master AP to one or more slave APs for joint transmission from the one or more slave APs to an STA in coordination with a transmission from the master AP to the STA."

The...