US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on April 21 for "Access point and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,399, issued on April 21, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Access point and communication method" was invented by Yutaka Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Nobuhiko Hashida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point includes a first interface that wirelessly communicates using a first band; a second interface that wirelessly communicates using a second band; and a controller that selects one type of request to send (RTS)/clear to send (CTS) control from among three mutually different types using at least one of the first interface and the second interface, and c...