ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,576, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Communication system and transmitter" was invented by Hideyuki Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Shiroshita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Ishigami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a communication system that transmits a signal from a plurality of transmission devices to one reception device via a transmission path. In the communication system, the transmission path includes a branch point at a midpoint, includes a plurality...