ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,607, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication control method" 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 communication control method includes, by a relay node relaying communication between a lower node and an upper node, detecting a failure in a first radio link between the upper node and the relay node, by the relay node, in response to the detection of the failure, transmitting, to the lower node, a first notification indicating the detection of the failure and attempting recovery of the first radio link, and, by the lower n...