ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,971, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods and apparatuses for RF calibration based on guaranteed availability of uplink calibration gaps" was invented by Kun Zhao (Malmo, Sweden), Erik Bengtsson (Eslov, Sweden), Jose Flordelis (Lund, Sweden), Fredrik Rusek (Eslov, Sweden) and Olof Zander (Sodra Sandby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a node of a communications network includes obtaining a timing parameter associated with a guaranteed availability of an uplink calibration gap for performing a calibration of one or more radio-frequency components of a wireless communication d...