ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,265, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication device" was invented by Toshiaki Fukushima (Tokyo), Shigeru Sumi (Tokyo), Tetsuya Takashima (Tokyo) and Koji Noda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a body, and a wireless communicator housed in the body for communicating wirelessly with an external device proximate to the body through magnetic coupling. The body is placed in an opening in a wall surface and fixed to the wall surface with an exposed surface of the body exposed from the wall surface. The wireless communicator includes a substrate including a co...