ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,865, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Communication device and control device" was invented by Toru Takashima (Osaka, Japan), Masaya Fujimoto (Osaka, Japan), Kengo Yasumura (Osaka, Japan) and Reo Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device configured to notify an external control device of information managed in the communication device, the communication device including: a communication circuitry configured to perform data communication with the control device; and a control circuitry configured to generate notification data in res...