ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,816, issued on July 8, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Intermediation device and intermediating method using the same" was invented by Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan), Masayuki Kamon (Akashi, Japan), Shigetsugu Tanaka (Akashi, Japan) and Yoshihiko Maruyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediation device (2) constitutes a manipulation signal converting module in the intermediation device (2) or a manipulation terminal (3). When the manipulation signal converting module receives a plurality of manipulation signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of manipulation keys, the manipulati...