ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,425, issued on July 21, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods" was invented by Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Brian Alexander Martin (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transmitting data to a communications device from a wireless communications network comprising one or more infrastructure equipment, the method comprises configuring one or more of the infrastructure equipment for transmitting one or more candidate beams of si...