US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 28 for "Transmission device, transmission method, relay device, relay device control method, reception device, reception device control method, and network system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,194, issued on July 28, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transmission device, transmission method, relay device, relay device control method, reception device, reception device control method, and network system" was invented by Hiroshi Morita (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuaki Toba (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masanari Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention allows a reduction in power consumed by communications between devices over a network. A transmission-side device transmits a signal including a wake up signal, path information, and a main data signal in this order to the following relay device...