ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,123, issued on June 30, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication devices and methods" was invented by Felix Fellhauer (Stuttgart, Germany), Dana Ciochina (Stuttgart, Germany) and Thomas Handte (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first communication device comprises circuitry configured to simultaneously communicate with a group of two or more second communication devices. The circuitry is configured to generate schedule information that schedules, for two or more subsequent time slots, the assignment of different resource units to the second communication devices of the group of second communication d...