ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,575, issued on July 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transmitter and receiver for multiple channel operation" was invented by Yuichi Morioka (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter for transmitting data to a receiver in a wireless local area network communication system, including: a candidate channel determination unit configured to determine a candidate channel list including at least one channel being available for transmission at the transmitter; a transmitting unit for transmitting a request packet including the candidate channel list; and a receiving unit for receiving at least one...