US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Nov. 4 for "Relay device inserting apparatus position information in packet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,869, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Relay device inserting apparatus position information in packet" was invented by Moe Yoshida (Osaka, Japan), Toshimasa Takaki (Osaka, Japan) and Naoki Ochi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position information relay device interposed between a network device and an apparatus includes: a position information recognizer which recognizes position information of the apparatus; and a position information relay which receives a communication packet transmitted by the apparatus to the network device, includes the p...