ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,622, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Intermediate apparatus, communication method, and program" was invented by Junki Ichikawa (Musashino, Japan), Hideki Nishizawa (Musashino, Japan), Kenji Shimizu (Musashino, Japan), Yukio Tsukishima (Musashino, Japan), Toru Mano (Musashino, Japan), Tomoya Hibi (Musashino, Japan) and Kiwami Inoue (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate device 10A includes a transfer unit 11 that transfers a request including data to be transmitted from a local 30 to a remote 50, and a generation unit 12 that generates a pseudo-response to the request and returns the pse...