US Patent Issued to Oki Electric Industry on Feb. 17 for "Communication apparatus and communication method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,510, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus and communication method" was invented by Masaya Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus according to one or more embodiments may include: a storage that stores MAC filtering registration information indicating a registered MAC address serving as a MAC address of a communication device which is allowed to perform communication and identification information of the communication device; a communication part configured to receive a communication packet from a network; a MAC filter processor configured t...