ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,753, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama-shi, Japan).

"Software updating device, in-vehicle terminal, and software updating system" was invented by Mitsuhiko Kikuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Eisuke Ohashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshimori Shizuka (Kanagawa, Japan), Yohei Kaieda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software updating device includes a controller and a storage device. The software updating device uses software update data of a vehicle for updating the software. The storage device stores a common package including at least the update data, and an iden...