ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,213, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Communication device having cross-platform communication function, communication system having the same and communication method thereof" was invented by Yu-Chang Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yen-Nien Lu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Shu-Yu Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Chun-Hsien Tien (Nantou County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device having cross-platform communication function includes a signal transmitting module, a positioning module and a processing module. The positioning module receives the coordinate ...