ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,354, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system, connection designation control method, control apparatus and program" was invented by Shota Nakayama (Musashino, Japan), Daisuke Murayama (Musashino, Japan), Kenichi Kawamura (Musashino, Japan) and Takatsune Moriyama (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system includes a terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with a base station, a plurality of IoT terminals, and a control device. The control device includes a processor; and a memory that includes instructions, which when executed, cause the pr...