US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on April 8 for "Communication device and communication method" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,743, issued on April 8, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Hiroyuki Motozuka (Kanagawa, Japan), Takenori Sakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Masataka Irie (Kanagawa, Japan), Yao Huang Gaius Wee (Singapore) and Hong Cheng Michael Sim (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes: control circuitry that controls transmission/reception of a first control frame and a first data frame used for communication with another communication apparatus, and controls transmission/reception of a second control frame...