US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on March 17 for "Apparatus, method, and system for wide to short range wireless communication conversion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,715, issued on March 17, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Apparatus, method, and system for wide to short range wireless communication conversion" was invented by Tetsuya Kuwahara (Kyoto, Japan), Munekuni Oshima (Ise, Japan) and Wataru Kitamura (Inuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes a wide-area wireless communicator to transmit and receive information to and from a transport vehicle via a wireless access point through wide-area wireless communication, a short-range wireless communicator to transmit and receive information to and from a communication device through shor...