ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,685, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Update control system, update control method, non-transitory storage medium, and in-vehicle control device" was invented by Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Tanimori (Toyota, Japan) and Nana Kikuire (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An update control system includes: a vehicle including an in-vehicle control device; an information processing terminal configured to communicate with the in-vehicle control device by wire communication; and a center configured to communicate with the in-vehicle control device over a wireless network. The in...