ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,571, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication devices and methods" was invented by Dana Ciochina-Kar (Stuttgart, Germany), Thomas Handte (Stuttgart, Germany), Daniel Verenzuela (Stuttgart, Germany) and Gianmarco Zonta (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two access points AP1 and oAP1 are within overlapping basic service sets and engage in partially or fully overlapped downlink transmissions towards respective associated station(s) STA1, oSTA1. At the same time the interference towards the other stations involved in the coordinated communication scheme is controlled and suppressed/re...