ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,172, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"User equipment, wireless communications network and methods" was invented by Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Basuki Priyanto (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment includes transceiver circuitry, control circuitry for controlling the transceiver circuitry and an energy storage device configured to provide energy to at least the transceiver circuitry for transmitting signals to or receiving signals from the wireless communications network. The energy storage device ...