ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,093, issued on July 7, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Communication device, communication system and communication control method" was invented by Masashi Mishima (Osaka, Japan), Daisuke Sonoda (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshiaki Ikeuchi (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a processor and a communication part. The communication part communicates with one or more slaves. The processor has a function of executing communication processing and setting processing. The communication processing includes causing the communication part to transmit a frame inc...