US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 21 for "Software update program for in-vehicle devices and associated server" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,050, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Software update program for in-vehicle devices and associated server" was invented by Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Sho Nakamura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program update system includes a vehicle including a plurality of in-vehicle devices, and a server provided outside the vehicle. Each of the in-vehicle devices of the vehicle includes a storage unit configured to store one or more programs, an in-vehicle device communication unit configured to perform communication with the server, and an update execution unit configured to u...