ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,093, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Takayuki Nakano (Ishikawa, Japan), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan) and Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This communication device comprises: a control circuit that measures signals received from a plurality of other communication devices to determine measurement values, and that generates, on the basis of the measurement values, feedback information relating to switching of cooperative communication; and a transmission circuit that t...