ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,299, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Infrastructure equipment, communications devices and methods" was invented by Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network configured to receive data from a communications device via a communications channel between the infrastructure equipment and the communications device. The infrastructure equipment comprises circuitry configured to receive, from the communications device, a request for a resource allocation, to receive one or more reference symbols ...