ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,964, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Communication apparatus and communication method, and program" was invented by Hiroo Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshihisa Hyakudai (San Diego) and Naohiro Koshisaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus, a communication method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. In one example, the communication apparatus includes a transmission circuitry, that, when a packet is distributed to a plurality of lanes and transmitted to a communication apparatus on a receiving side, is configured to transmit a pa...