ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,823, issued on June 17, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data transfer device and data transfer method" was invented by Masahiro Nakatsukasa (Tokyo) and Hisao Nakano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a data transfer device capable of avoiding reduction in a data communication speed of a sensor in an area with a low wireless communication line speed while suppressing occurrence of overflow. The data transfer device includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires sensor data detected by a sensor at a first data communication speed; a communication unit that transmits the acquired sensor data to an ext...