ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,199, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus and temperature monitoring method" was invented by Haruka Nagoshi (Musashino, Japan), Toshinori Hanano (Musashino, Japan), Shun Morishima (Musashino, Japan), Kenta Ito (Musashino, Japan), Masayoshi Sekiguchi (Musashino, Japan), Takayoshi Tashiro (Musashino, Japan), Satoshi Shimazu (Musashino, Japan), Tomoaki Yoshida (Musashino, Japan) and Manabu Kubota (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes a communication unit, a power supply unit, a temperature monitoring unit, and a control unit....