ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,690, issued on March 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and communication device to realize high communication performance" was invented by Yifu Tang (Tokyo), Hiromasa Uchiyama (Tokyo) and Naoki Kusashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing device that includes an acquisition unit that acquires information about sidelink communication. The information processing device further includes a determination unit that determines whether to enable feedback related to a data automatic repeat request in the sidelink communication ...