ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,695, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device, program update method, and program update system" was invented by Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Takanori Ariga (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a memory having a first storage area for storing a program related to vehicle control and a second storage area for storing an update program for updating the program, and a controller configured to determine whether a vehicle is in a stop state and start an update process of updating the program stored in the first storage area with the ...