ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,900, issued on March 3, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system, wireless communication method and program" was invented by Kiyohiko Itokawa (Musashino, Japan), Yasuyoshi Kojima (Musashino, Japan), Daisuke Goto (Musashino, Japan) and Kazumitsu Sakamoto (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device includes: a transmission unit that transmits a signal to another wireless communication device mounted on a moving object; a timing control unit that starts transmission of the signal by the transmission unit at a timing at which communication with...