US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Dec. 30 for "Communication apparatus and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,756, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Communication apparatus and communication method" was invented by Hiroyuki Motozuka (Kanagawa, Japan), Kosei Nakano (Kanagawa, Japan), Takenori Sakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiro Egami (Tokyo) and Masataka Irie (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes: a first communication circuit that operates as an access point of an infrastructure mode and transmits and receives a radio wave toward and from a front side of the vehicle; and a second communication circuit that o...