US Patent Issued to NEC on May 19 for "Communication control apparatus, operation terminal, and equipment operation system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,210, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication control apparatus, operation terminal, and equipment operation system" was invented by Yasuji Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One of objects of the invention is to lower a possibility that operated equipment (101) is operated from an operation terminal (103) of a person who does not intend to operate the operated equipment (101). A communication control apparatus (102) includes a first wireless communication unit (110) that starts action of near-field wireless communication when acquiring a detection signal of a user or a target by a sensor (106) inst...