US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 2 for "Software update apparatus, master, OTA master, and network system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,783, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Software update apparatus, master, OTA master, and network system" was invented by Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Yusuke Satoh (Nisshin, Japan) and Satoru Fukuyo (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master includes: a communication module configured to request a download of update data from a center; a first storage device configured to store the update data obtained by the download; and one or more processors configured to at a time of execution of the download, check at least one of a free space size of the first storage device or a free s...