ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,395, issued on May 27, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system and terminal" was invented by Riichi Kudo (Musashino, Japan), Takeru Inoue (Musashino, Japan), Atsushi Taniguchi (Musashino, Japan) and Kohei Mizuno (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a communication system and a terminal capable of predicting future communication quality in order to enable variations in communication quality due to variations in environment to be addressed. A communication system and a terminal according to the present invention learn an input and output relationship from t...