ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,539, issued on May 6, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication system, communication method, communication device, and medium with communication program stored thereon" was invented by Takumi Kanaya (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshitaka Imura (Kyoto, Japan), Takayuki Shibata (Kyoto, Japan), Sho Kurose (Kyoto, Japan) and Weiwei Yan (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system includes a first communication device that configures a first wireless network together with another peripheral device or a plurality of other peripheral devices by using a first BSSID and a second communication device that conf...