ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,029, issued on July 22, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system" was invented by Ryuta Satoh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an information processing system, and a program that enable update of an SW to be quickly and safely implemented. The software program (SW) is updated from the vehicle group in which the safety is confirmed, the operation state of the SW after the update is confirmed, and if there is no abnormality, th...