ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,489, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Communication device, communication system, and communication method" was invented by Soshi Shimomura (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Ikeda (Tokyo), Yutaka Uematsu (Tokyo) and Hideyuki Sakamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes: a transmitting circuit that repeatedly outputs a first prescribed signal to a transmission path at a prescribed cycle; a receiving circuit that receives a second prescribed signal repeatedly output at the prescribed cycle from another communication device via the transmission path; a waveform equivalence pro...