ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,787, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Communication device, communication system, and communication method" 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: "A communication device includes communication circuitry configured to transmit a serial signal group conforming to a serial peripheral interface (SPI) and transmitted from a master in synchronization with a clock to a communication partner device as a batch of data blocks within one frame period of a predetermined communication prot...