ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,779, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Base station device, radio communication device, and radio communication system" was invented by Hiroki Matsuda (Saitama, Japan) and Kazuyuki Shimezawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station device that includes a controller that notifies a terminal device of first information regarding a signal waveform to be used in downlink communication in an initial connection procedure performed with the terminal device among a first signal waveform and a second signal waveform and performs the downlink communication with the signal waveform to be used base...