ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,683, issued on April 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus having signal strength identification, method of controlling the same, and communication system" was invented by Eigoro Ina (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point AP includes at least one memory that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions to obtain a first communication quality between another AP and a station STA and a second communication quality between the AP and the STA, and communicate with the STA by using joint beamforming, JB, in coordination with the other AP in a case wh...