ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,030, issued on March 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communications device, infrastructure equipment, and methods for determining whether to transmit first data using first uplink communication resources" was invented by Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a communications device in a wireless communications network. The method includes receiving at a first time an uplink grant indication, the uplink grant indication indicating first uplink communication resources allocated for the transmission of first d...