ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,078, issued on June 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system" was invented by Mitsuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Shimezawa (Tokyo), Hiromasa Uchiyama (Tokyo), Hiroki Matsuda (Tokyo) and Ryota Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes a discriminator that determines whether or not to execute packet coding for generating a plurality of encoded bit sequences having different contents from one transmission data sequence, according to a predetermined condition, a generator that generates a plurality of bit sequences from on...