ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,126, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Yamaha Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Communication method and communication system" was invented by Yuki Seto (Tokyo), Takahiro Iwata (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Imoto (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes transmitting authentication information from a transmitter disposed inside a facility to an area within the facility, and starting communication between a staff terminal held by facility staff of the facility and a user terminal that has received the authentication information transmitted by the transmitter, in response to a connection request transmitted from ...