ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,718, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Center device, method for generating distribution package, and non-transitory computer readable medium for generating distribution package" was invented by Nao Sakurai (Kariya, Japan) and Shuhei Takahashi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect of the present disclosure, a distribution package that is generated in advance is stored in a package DB, and information of a vehicle in which a target device is mounted is stored in a campaign DB. Vehicle related information includes a special flag indicating whether to generate a distribution package a...