ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,733, issued on April 1, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication control device, communication control method, communication terminal, and communication method for switching a terminal from a first connection to a second connection" was invented by Ryuichi Hirata (Tokyo), Kosuke Aio (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shigeru Sugaya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control device that causes a second communication device to generate a switching response frame indicating a response of connection switching that is to be transmitted to a communication terminal configured to switch a connection destinatio...