ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,289, issued on March 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Communication control device, communication control method, and relay server" was invented by Masayuki Hoshino (Kariya, Japan) and Keisuke Ikushima (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control device: transmits, from an application to a wireless communication device used in a vehicle, a start request of data communication between the application and an external device; acquire a communication condition related to the data communication between the application and the external device from the application; determines whether the data commun...