ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,194, issued on April 15, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication system, management device, communication instrument, and communication control method" was invented by Yutaka Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, data is transmitted more suitably in an emergency state. This communication system comprises: a management device that manages first data including settings pertaining to communication during a normal state, and second data including settings pertaining to communication during an emergency state; and a communication ...