ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,833, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acquisition unit acquires environment information indicating an installation environment of a communication apparatus. A scheme specifying unit specifies a transmission scheme of data on the basis of relational data indicating a relationship between the environment in...