US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Vehicle control system and method for confirming software consistency" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,309, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control system and method for confirming software consistency" was invented by Masaki Miyake (Toyota, Japan), Teppei Fukuzawa (Toyota, Japan) and Shuji Matsuno (Chiryu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specific on-board device, that is any one of a plurality of on-board devices, is configured to acquire the versions of software included in other on-board devices when the power source of a vehicle is turned on. The specific on-board device determines whether or not the versions of the software of all the on-board devices that constitute a veh...