ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,733, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ICOM Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Communication terminal and control method" was invented by Keishiro Uwamori (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a communication terminal capable of easily determining which of calling via IP wireless communication and calling via IP telephone communication to use. A communication terminal includes: a main body-side codec which decodes an output signal from a call control section and outputs the decoded output signal to a main body-side speaker and which encodes an input signal from a main body-side microphone and the encoded input signal to the cal...