ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,642, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods, communictions devices, and non-terrestrial infrastructure equipment" was invented by Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a communications device is provided. The communications device is configured to transmit uplink signals to and/or to receive downlink signals from a non-terrestrial infrastructure equipment forming part of a non-terrestrial network, NTN, and to transmit uplink signal to and...