ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,016, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods, communications devices and infrastructure equipment" was invented by Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Yassin Aden Awad (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a communications device for transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, from the infrastructure equipment on a first carrier for the communicati...