ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,683, issued on May 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, and wireless communication control method" was invented by Naganori Shirakata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuma Nishiyasu (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This wireless communication system comprises: a first wireless node; a second wireless node that transmits a signal to the first wireless node in response to a request from the first wireless node; and a third wireless node that transmits a connection request to the second wireless node in response to recepti...