ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,008, issued on May 12, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radio communication device and method" was invented by Kazutaka Ida (Tokyo), Koji Kubota (Tokyo), Fumio Urabe (Tokyo), Kenji Ogami (Tokyo) and Hiroki Sugimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specific unit in a first wireless communication device determines whether a second wireless communication device is a priority candidate device based on the possibility that the connection with the second wireless communication device will be disconnected. When a communication control unit receives a permission request for a communication with the second wireless co...