ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,771, issued on July 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Adapter device, file exchange system, file exchange method, and computer-readable non-transitory storage medium with program stored therein" was invented by Satoru Ojima (Tokyo) and Katsunori Taguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter device is equipped with a communication unit configured to carry out communications with a file exchange device on the basis of a predetermined communication protocol, a transmission processing unit which, in the case that transmission target file serving as an object to be transmitted has been written into a shared dir...