ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,020, issued on June 17, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radio communication apparatus, and radio communication method" was invented by Riku Omiya (Musashino, Japan), Tomoki Murakami (Musashino, Japan), Koichi Ishihara (Musashino, Japan), Takafumi Hayashi (Musashino, Japan) and Yasushi Takatori (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication system including, a primary transmitting station and a primary receiving station which are being in communication, a secondary transmitting station and one or more secondary receiving stations which use the identical frequency that are used ...