ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,208, issued on July 28, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system and receiver" was invented by Tadahiro Shimoda (Tokyo), Mitsuru Mochizuki (Tokyo), Noriyuki Fukui (Tokyo) and Daichi Uchino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a radio communication technology that can achieve low latency, high reliability, and low jitter characteristics. A transmitter is configured to duplicate a packet and transmit the duplicated packets. The receiver is configured to receive the duplicated packets. The receiver is configured to transfer, to an upper layer in the receiver, a first packet (1401, 1403, 1405,...