ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,691, issued on July 14, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Expedited update of cached data for devices in standby" was invented by Henning Christian Fredriksson (Gotaland, Sweden) and Per Johan Magnus Gunnarsson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are presented regarding synchronizing data transmission between various remote clients and respective local devices. By synchronizing data transmission from the remote clients with data receipt at respective local devices, operation of the local devices can be constrained to specific periods of time. A local device can be woken from a...