ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,182, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Communication terminal device, communication method and communication program product" was invented by Takashi Takeuchi (Kariya, Japan) and Tsuneo Nakata (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication terminal device includes a first communication unit that is configured to communicate with another communication terminal device by a first communication method; and a second communication unit that is configured to communicate with the other communication terminal device by a second communication method that is different from the first communication m...