US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 1 for "Program update system, program transmission device, and program transmission method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,686, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Program update system, program transmission device, and program transmission method" was invented by Kunihiro Miyauchi (Toyota, Japan), Isao Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroya Andou (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program update system includes a vehicle including a first and second electronic device, and a program transmission device. The program transmission device is configured to communicate with the vehicle and transmit a program for the first electronic device and a program for the second electronic device to the vehicle. The program tr...