ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,964, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Communication system, electronic control device, and communication method" was invented by Ryo Tsuchiya (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kazuyoshi Serizawa (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system and so forth that can improve the throughput are provided. The communication system includes a server 1A (first server), another server 1B (second server), and a client 2. The server 1B transmits server information (second server information) indicative of an address of the server 1B to the client 2 through a non-IP communication chan...