ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,602, issued on July 1, was assigned to PIONEER Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device" was invented by Shinpei Kawaguchi (Kawagoe, Japan), Takafumi Noguchi (Kawagoe, Japan), Masayoshi Suganuma (Kawagoe, Japan), Yu Akabori (Kawagoe, Japan), Naoyuki Mikami (Kawagoe, Japan), Tomonari Mabuchi (Kawagoe, Japan) and Masaki Hatori (Kawagoe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention implements switching between two protocol sets without correcting an application. An information processing device includes: a first communication processing unit for performing a communication with a first external device according to a fir...