ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,973, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus, communication system, control method and program" was invented by Karin Umeda (Musashino, Japan), Kota Asaka (Musashino, Japan), Hiroko Nomura (Musashino, Japan), Hiroshi O (Musashino, Japan), Yoshihito Sakai (Musashino, Japan), Hirotaka Ujikawa (Musashino, Japan), Kenji Miyamoto (Musashino, Japan), Yuka Okamoto (Musashino, Japan) and Tatsuya Shimada (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device including a collection unit that acquires, at a predetermined cycle, cooperation information, which is information indicating a communication st...