ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,637, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SYSTEM DESIGN Corp. (Fukui, Japan).

"System for establishing communication" was invented by Mitsuhiro Iida (Fukui, Japan) and Shigeo Fukugi (Fukui, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to establish communication that reduces the time to establish inter-terminal communication and reduces load on the server during establishment of communication between host terminal and client terminal, during inter-terminal communication after establishment of communication and during reconnection. A system to establish communication includes a host terminal, at least one client terminal, and a server t...