US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 15 for "Center, update control method, non-transitory storage medium, OTA master, and software update system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,413, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Center, update control method, non-transitory storage medium, OTA master, and software update system" was invented by Shoichi Nagamitsu (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A center configured to communicate with an OTA master and a malfunction management server includes a processor. The malfunction management server is configured to store malfunction occurrence information. The processor is configured to receive the malfunction occurrence information from the malfunction management server and an inquiry about presence or absence of an update of so...