US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Ota master, center, system, update method, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,774, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Ota master, center, system, update method, and vehicle" was invented by Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Shunsuke Tanimori (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An OTA master is configured to control software update for an electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle. The OTA master includes a communication unit configured to receive, front a center, a distribution package including update data for an electronic control unit on which a first-kind non-volatile memory having one storage area is mounted and update data for an electronic control ...