ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,919, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Data communication system, center device, master device, storage medium storing update data placement program, and storage medium storing update data acquisition program" was invented by Hideo Yoshimi (Kariya, Japan), Masaaki Abe (Kariya, Japan) and Koto Tomatsu (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data communication system includes a center device that places update data in a content delivery network (CDN); and a master device that installs the update data downloaded from the CDN in an electronic control unit to be reprogrammed. The center device is con...