ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,969, issued on May 19, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multi-device transmission via coverage enhancing device" was invented by Olof Zander (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Kun Zhao (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Erik Bengtsson (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Fredrik Rusek (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Jose Flordelis (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Chaitanya Tumula (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples of the disclosure pertain to multi-device transmission via a coverage enhancing device such as a reconfigurable reflective device. Spatial filters are used at the coverage enhancing device tha...