ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,075, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus and control method" was invented by Hiroki Yoshikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes: an alarm unit that executes a monitoring function of detecting a wrongful act on a vehicle and causes an alarm output unit to output an alarm when the wrongful act is detected by the monitoring function; a software update unit that performs an update of software of an electronic device equipped in the vehicle; and an alarm output control unit that performs restriction of the output of the alarm when the software update unit perfo...