US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Feb. 10 for "Software update device, software update system, and software update method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,392, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Software update device, software update system, and software update method" was invented by Hidetoshi Teraoka (Tokyo) and Masashi Yano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software update device (gateway) 10 includes a first update control unit 140 that performs software update for a first software unit (for example, an ECU_A 13 and an ECU_B 16) and a second update control unit 150 that performs software update for a second software unit (for example, an ECU_C 17 and an ECU_D 19). Also, the first update control unit 140 includes a first sequence con...