ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,655, issued on July 14, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Communication device" was invented by Takanobu Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan), Hirotaka Asakura (Nagoya, Japan), Munehisa Matsuda (Nagoya, Japan) and Satoshi Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device may execute a specific wireless communication of object data via a first wireless network with a mobile device using a second type of interface after executing a specific process of sending a first wireless setting for causing the mobile device to belong to the first wireless network using a first type of interface in a first case where...