ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,189, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication management device, communication management method, driving support device, driving support method and computer readable medium" was invented by Masaaki Takeyasu (Tokyo), Mari Ochiai (Tokyo), Shusaku Umeda (Tokyo), Takeshi Suehiro (Tokyo), Takashi Asahara (Tokyo) and Teruko Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication management device (10) estimates communication quality between a control device (30) mounted on a moving object (70) and a driving assistance device (20) to provide a driving assistance service for the control device...