ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,872, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication devices and methods" was invented by Thomas Handte (Stuttgart, Germany) and Dana Ciochina (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In communication devices and methods configured to communicate with each other, bits of a continuous bit stream are allocated to resource units of different sizes. Various options are disclosed that differ in both implementation complexity and diversity achieved. Furthermore, exemplary implementations are provided that consider the definition of resource units of IEEE802.11ax as a baseline and outline the operation ...