ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,518, issued on July 28, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication system, communication apparatus, and communication method" was invented by Haruka Nagoshi (Musashino, Japan), Hiroaki Katsurai (Musashino, Japan) and Tomoaki Yoshida (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first communication device, transmits a startup instruction signal and a second communication device restarts supply of power that has been stopped in a sleep state when receiving the startup instruction signal from the first communication device and includes transmission data in a startup completion signal when generating the start completion signa...