ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,056, issued on April 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Communication system, master device, slave device, and control method for communication system" was invented by Atsuki Kyuhata (Osaka, Japan), Hayata Sakai (Osaka, Japan) and Masashi Mishima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bandwidth used in a network of a communication system is suppressed. Communication system includes master device and slave device. Master device includes: first counter that increments a first count value every time a first unit time elapses; second counter that updates a second count value ev...