ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,745, issued on May 19, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Communication device, distance measuring device, and authentication method in communication device" was invented by Toshihiko Saito (Miyagi, Japan) and Daisuke Takai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a processor configured to perform a sharing process in which data relating to a first frequency and a second frequency is shared with an external device, the first frequency and the second frequency being configured to be used to communicate with the external device, transmit and receive a high frequency signal with respect to the ext...