ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,665, issued on May 13, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Communication processing device, communication processing method and program, and data structure of header part of network layer" was invented by Hideaki Emoto (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication processing device includes a processing unit configured to process a network layer of a communication frame received from a transmission line. A header part of the network layer contains extension header presence/absence information that indicates whether the header part has an extension header part for defining header information di...