ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,978, issued on May 13, was assigned to toraru Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Terminal apparatus for performing communication between remote locations" was invented by Jun Nishiguchi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that supports a remote proxy service in which, on behalf of a request source user, a request destination user goes to a location (local site) where the request source user cannot go, and performs what is instructed by the request source user. The system includes a first terminal apparatus used by the request source user and a second terminal apparatus used by the request destination user. The first term...