ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,783, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Function executing device with two types of wireless communication interfaces" was invented by Takanobu Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan), Hirotaka Asakura (Nagoya, Japan), Munehisa Matsuda (Nagoya, Japan) and Satoshi Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A function executing device is configured to send a wireless identifier to a communication device via a first type of wireless communication interface for setting up a wireless connection. The function executing device is configured to determine whether the function executing device is in an error state a...