US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Oct. 27 for "First and second communication devices and methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,522, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"First and second communication devices and methods" was invented by Dana Ciochina-Kar (Stuttgart, Germany), Thomas Handte (Stuttgart, Germany) and Daniel Verenzuela (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first communication device configured to communicate with one or more second and third communication devices, the first communication device comprising circuitry configured to receive a request for a transmission opportunity (TXOP) from a second communication device, the requested transmission opportunity overlapping with a scheduling interval during whi...