ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,310, issued on March 25, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Connection and notification for priority communication" was invented by Kenichiro Aoyagi (Tokyo), Awn Muhammad (Tokyo) and Tsunehiko Chiba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication system includes: a priority communication detection unit that detects priority communication from a communicator communicating wirelessly; a connection unit for connecting the communicator for which the priority communication is detected to a second wireless communication network that is different from a first wireless communication network to which the communicato...