US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR on Sept. 23 for "Firmware update method and apparatus for a MCU of a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,430, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Firmware update method and apparatus for a MCU of a vehicle" was invented by JaeHyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firmware update method includes requesting a hardware security module (HSM) to store version information of a current firmware stored in a flash memory and storing, by the HSM, the version information of the current firmware. The firmware update method also includes erasing the flash memory when the version information of the current firmware is stored by the HSM and writing new downloaded firmware to the flash...