ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,055, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Communication device and communications system with state-switching control to synchronize and control switching among communication states" was invented by Toshihisa Hyakudai (San Diego), Junya Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Ota (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication with state-switching control is disclosed. In one example, a communication device includes a state-switching control circuit that controls switching between a first state in which synchronization for communicating with a partner device is establish...