ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,675, issued on July 7, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Method and system of delivering data to a vehicle" was invented by Erik St. Gray (Tacoma, Wash.), Liam Pedersen (San Francisco), Corey Heath (Tempe, Ariz.), Mark Bailey (Seattle), Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.), Gregory Vera (Atsugi, Japan), Vincent Jones (Atsugi, Japan), He Li (Atsugi, Japan) and Takeshi Hirano (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of delivering data to a vehicle including transmitting a request for the data from a vehicl...