ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,274, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Relay base station, and method and computer program for relaying communication" was invented by Shinichiroh Fujii (Kawasaki, Japan) and Hideo Hasegawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay base station mounted on a vehicle and configured to relay wireless communication between a base station and at least one communication terminal by power supply from a battery of the vehicle includes a processor configured to set a restriction level of the function of relaying wireless communication between the base station and the at least one communicat...