ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,233, issued on May 20, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for producing a software component for an electronic computing device of a motor vehicle, computer program product, computer-readable storage medium, as well as a vehicle-external update system" was invented by Christian Seiler (Fellbach-Schmiden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a software component for an electronic computing device of a motor vehicle by a vehicle-external update system involves producing the software component based on a configuration write sequence, a configuration read sequence, and a configur...