US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 29 for "Vehicle controller, program updating method, and non-transitory storage medium that stores program for updating program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,191, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, program updating method, and non-transitory storage medium that stores program for updating program" was invented by Akira Hayashidera (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes: an execution unit configured to execute a control program for controlling a vehicle; a storage unit having a first program storage area to store the control program and a second program storage area to store an update program that is an updated version of the control program and created based on update data acquired from a devic...