ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,654, issued on May 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Control method, mobile node, and recording medium" was invented by Yuji Unagami (Osaka, Japan), Tetsuji Fuchikami (Osaka, Japan), Yuuki Hirose (Osaka, Japan) and Ayaka Mitani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method to be performed by a first mobile node disconnected from a mobile line among a plurality of mobile nodes each being connectable to the mobile line includes: transmitting and receiving a mobile line connection status to and from each of one or more second mobile nodes via near-field wirele...