ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,349, issued on March 31, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication apparatus and communication method for prioritized traffic" was invented by Rojan Chitrakar (Singapore) and Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a communication apparatus and a communication method for prioritized traffic. The communication apparatus, comprising: a receiver, which, in operation, receives from another communication apparatus a notification of one or more priority service periods (SPs), each SP being a time period in which only frames bel...