ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,434, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Wireless communication apparatus, information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Hiroki Kawasaki (Toyota, Japan), Noriaki Ito (Toyota, Japan), Hiroto Nakagawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Satoru Ikeda (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication apparatus including a first communication module configured to use a first communication network that is a cellular communication network and a second communication module configured to use a second communication network that is a ...