ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,199, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Relay apparatus" was invented by Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, Japan) and Henry Chang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to one embodiment is a method executed by a relay apparatus configured to: connect to a first upper apparatus; and have a function of relaying communication between the first upper apparatus and a lower apparatus. The method includes: detecting a connection failure with the first upper apparatus after starting the relaying; transmitting a reconnection request to a second upper apparatus which is a candidate of a reconnect...