US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 24 for "Communication apparatus and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,011, issued on March 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication apparatus 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: "A first apparatus that performs sensing to sense a second apparatus via radio waves includes: a communication unit that receives a frame transmitted by the second apparatus via radio waves and senses the second apparatus using the received frame; and a controller that selects, from among predetermined frequencies, a frequency for the second apparatus to t...