US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 7 for "Electronic control unit (ECU) program for determining real time POST startup software version inconsistency after software update" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,772, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electronic control unit (ECU) program for determining real time POST startup software version inconsistency after software update" was invented by Kazuyoshi Shiohara (Nagoya, Japan), Tomoki Shibutani (Nisshin, Japan), Takayuki Fujimoto (Seto, Japan) and Masaki Miyake (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device constituting a system of a vehicle includes a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU is configured to store first software for executing a predetermined process. The predetermined process includes a first process for implementing a fi...