ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,989, issued on May 19, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Shigeru Sugaya (Tokyo), Yusuke Tanaka (Tokyo) and Ryuichi Hirata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device that includes a control unit that performs control to estimate a transmission capacity to repeatedly transmit data of a specific attribute by a predetermined amount of information at each of a plurality of predetermined transmission intervals, and determine, in a case where a transmission opportunity is acquired by random access control with another communication device, a predetermin...