US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on June 9 for "Communication device and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,708, issued on June 9, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo), Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Haruhi Echigo (Tokyo), Yuki Hokazono (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes: a transmission unit configured to transmit a connection request to a first communication device; a reception unit configured to receive a connection permission from the first communication device; and a control unit configured to establish a first connection to the first communicat...