ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,029, issued on July 21, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods and communications devices" was invented by Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Naoki Kusashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of operating a communications device receiving from a wireless access network a configured grant of physical uplink shared channel, CG-PUSCH, resources of a wireless access interface which includes physical resources of an unlicensed frequency bandwidth. The CG-PUSCH resources provide flexible transmission occasions to transmit uplink transport blocks as a plurality of K repetitions. Each repetition is one of...