ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,984, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Communication system which determines a communication fee or a monetary amount of reward" was invented by Motoki Ito (Tokyo) and Ryusuke Tamanaha (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system includes: an information transmission section that performs information transmission via a communication network; a communication relaying section that relays a communication between a mobile communication terminal and the communication network; and a fee determination section that determines a communication fee for communication via a communication network or a...