US Patent Issued to Sony Group on July 21 for "Communication devices and methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,064, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the concept of preempting PPDUs, i.e., truncating a PPDU carrying non-latency sensitive traffic to serve STAs with latency constraints. A first communication device comprises circuitry configured to listen to an ongoing data exchange between a second communication device and a third communication device on a wireless channel, to estimate a...