ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,087, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and communication method for connection request handling" was invented by Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Haruhi Echigo (Tokyo), Yuki Hokazono (Tokyo), Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (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 connection permission from the first communication device; and a control unit configured to establish a first conn...