US Patent Issued to DENSO on April 22 for "In-vehicle terminal, data collection system, and data transmission system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,643, issued on April 22, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"In-vehicle terminal, data collection system, and data transmission system" was invented by Yoshinori Atake (Kariya, Japan) and Kousuke Yamaoka (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle terminal includes: a communication unit; a necessity determination unit; a basic life determination unit that determines a life of data; a life correction unit that corrects the basic life determined by the basic life determination unit according to factors presumed to affect data fluctuations/data change; and a transmission determination unit that determines a tran...