ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,598, issued on April 29, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Communication device, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for terminal device, and terminal device" was invented by Takeshi Miyake (Nagoya, Japan) and Hirotaka Asakura (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device may be configured to receive a sending request by executing communication at a network layer or above of an Open System Interconnection reference model. The communication device may be configured to, in a case where the sending request is received, send a public key by exec...