ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,802, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Communication control method, terminal, and communication system" was invented by Tomohiro Yokota (Kyoto, Japan), Mariko Nakaso (Shiga, Japan) and Masafumi Okubo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control method executed by a terminal that performs short-range wireless communication with a device, includes setting a first period by using the timings of connections established by the terminal via the short-range wireless communication in response to a notification signal from the device, the first peri...