ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,335, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Yusuke Tanaka (Tokyo) and Ken Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device for observing a channel state in a plurality of links is provided.A communication device that performs wireless communication using a plurality of links includes a first transmission unit that transmits a first signal including information regarding start of observation of a channel state in part of the plurality of links, and a second transmission unit that transmits a second signal inducing a signal including ...