US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Sept. 16 for "Communication device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,343, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication device" was invented by Yutaka Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Nobuhiko Hashida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile terminal is a communication device that communicates using visible light, and includes: a plurality of light emitters, each of which is disposed along the front surface of the mobile terminal and transmits a visible light signal; and a plurality of light receivers, each of which is disposed along the front surface and receives a visible light signal. The plurality of light ...