ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,013, issued on July 22, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Control method and relay device for multicasting data" was invented by Yutaka Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller, which is a communication device, includes: a transfer unit including a function of transferring data received from a first terminal to another communication device via wireless communication; and a determination unit configured to determine whether first information is included in the data received by the transfer unit, the first information indicating that the data is to b...