ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,737, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Program management device, program management method, and recording medium" was invented by Satomi Tomokuni (Tokyo) and Tomonori Yokota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program management device includes a communication unit that communicates with an external device that is present outside a vehicle, a first storage unit having an irrespective program storage area where an irrespective program that is irrespective of control of the vehicle is stored, a second storage unit provided independently of the first storage unit, and an update processing unit configur...