US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 28 for "Terminal device, communication method, and communication system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,169, issued on July 28, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal device, communication method, and communication system" was invented by Naofumi Iwayama (Tokyo), Mitsuru Mochizuki (Tokyo), Fumiki Hasegawa (Tokyo), Tadahiro Shimoda (Tokyo) and Masuo Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device having a relay function of relaying a signal received from a first peripheral terminal among peripheral terminals, which are other terminal devices available for direct communication with the terminal device, to a second peripheral terminal among the peripheral terminals, the terminal device including: a detect...