ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,085, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle, information processing device, notification system, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroshi Inoue (Nagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Tanimori (Arlington, Va.) and Nana Kikuire (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle equipped with an electronic control unit includes: one or more communication devices configured to receive from a server an approval request to a user regarding update of software used in the electronic control unit; and one or more processors configured to receive a predete...