ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,416, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Updating software in a wireless switching control system" was invented by Takayuki Fujimoto (Seto, Japan), Masaki Miyake (Toyota, Japan), Tomoki Shibutani (Nissin, Japan) and Kazuyoshi Shiohara (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system configured to update software by wireless communication includes a plurality of specific control devices each including one or more memories configured to store specific software, and one or more processors configured to execute the specific processing by executing the specific software; and a switching c...