US Patent Issued to KDDI on April 29 for "Relay apparatus for relay communication, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,661, issued on April 29, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Relay apparatus for relay communication, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroki Takeda (Tokyo) and Shingo Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay apparatus for wirelessly relaying communication between a base station apparatus and a terminal apparatus determines, when a connection destination apparatus of wireless connection in a relay path is changed while being connected to a first base station apparatus via a relay path, whether a base station apparatus connected via the changed connection destination apparatus is the first base station...