ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,030, issued on April 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Time-division multiplexing communication system and recording medium" was invented by Tomoyuki Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master node (11) transmits a bandwidth extension instruction including an extension duration DEX, an extension time slot number NEX, and an extension time TEX to multiple slave nodes (12). The master node (11) and the multiple slave nodes (12) execute a bandwidth extension process of modifying a communication frame such that the start time of the following cycle following the cycle designated by the extension time TEX ...