US Patent Issued to CANON on March 25 for "Communication apparatus for data transmission in a neighbor aware network (NAN), control method, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,444, issued on March 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus for data transmission in a neighbor aware network (NAN), control method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yuki Yoshikawa (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a communication apparatus that can perform first communication in a network during a first period of a predetermined length having a predetermined cycle, and, in the network, can set a second period different from the first period based on the first communication and perform second communication during the second period while continuing the first com...