ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,932, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Communication system and data input control program" was invented by Takehisa Yamaguchi (Tokyo) and Takeshi Maekawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system that enables acquisition of data from a terminal device only as needed and when needed. A communication system including a terminal device including a sensing, a network system at least a part of which includes wireless communication, and a server that performs wireless communication with the terminal device through the network system and processes data received from the terminal device, in ...