ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,081, issued on July 28, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal device, base station device, communication method, and storage medium" was invented by Kazuyuki Shimezawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To greatly improve transmission efficiency of an entire system by improving reliability while ensuring low delay with respect to notification of response information in a communication system in which a base station device and a terminal device communicate with each other.A terminal device that communicates with a base station device, the terminal device including: a reception unit that receives a data chann...