ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,613, issued on July 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Data communication system, center device, master device, storage medium storing encryption program, and storage medium storing decryption program" was invented by Hideo Yoshimi (Kariya-city, Japan), Masaaki Abe (Kariya-city, Japan) and Koto Tomatsu (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data communication system includes a center device that distributes update data to a master device, and a master device that installs the update data downloaded from the center device in an electronic control unit to be reprogrammed. The center device generates a ...