ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,678, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DENDO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Data distribution device" was invented by Takemasa Kanzaki (Kariya, Japan), Nobuyuki Kondoh (Kariya, Japan) and Takeshi Sugashima (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data distribution device includes: a data storage storing a distribution destination setting table defining a correspondence relationship between (i) identification information combination including output source hardware identification information indicating output source of acquired data and data identification information indicating a type of acquired data and (ii) distribution destination...