US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Program rewriting device and program rewriting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,961, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Program rewriting device and program rewriting method" was invented by Kengo Hayashizaki (Seto, Japan), Masashi Amesara (Toyota, Japan), Masahide Ozaki (Anjo, Japan) and Hidetaka Nakane (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry of a program rewriting device is configured to create a transfer queue for each bus by grouping update data for each electronic control unit, assign threads to transfer queues one by one, starting with a transfer queue with a relatively large transfer data amount, perform parallel transfer of the update data...