ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,658, issued on June 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication device, communication method, base station, and method performed by base station" was invented by Naoki Kusashima (Tokyo), Hiromasa Uchiyama (Tokyo) and Hiroki Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a reception unit that receives, from the base station, a physical control signal used to control a physical layer of the communication device, the physical control signal including beam information about a beam used for communication between the communication device and the terminal device; and a communication control un...