ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,413, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication device, relay device, communication method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for transmission of data in different transmission schemes" was invented by Masakazu Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device (100) includes a plurality of communication units (103-1, 103-2) that transmit data in different transmission schemes from one another, a route selector (101) that searches for a most appropriate communication route and gives an instruction to transmit data from the communication unit corresponding to the most appropriate com...