ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,919, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Wireless communication device, wireless communication system, wireless communication connection method, and program" was invented by Koji Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device according to the disclosure includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The control unit includes a monitoring section that monitors strength of a radio signal transmitted by a currently-connected access point, a determination section that retrieves information indicating correspondence between information on a trave...