ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,179, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"First communication device and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for second communication device" was invented by Satoru Yanagi (Obu, Japan), Satoshi Matsushita (Nagoya, Japan), Munehisa Matsuda (Nagoya, Japan), Kiyotaka Ohara (Nagoya, Japan), Katsunori Enomoto (Toyokawa, Japan), Yuki Yada (Kuwana, Japan), Kyohei Mori (Nagoya, Japan), Hideki Nogawa (Nagoya, Japan), Tetsuya Okuno (Nagoya, Japan) and Koki Izumi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first communication device may include: a databa...