US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Control device and management method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,121, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device and management method" was invented by Fumiya Sato (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device of the vehicle comprises a first non-volatile memory storing software for controlling the vehicle and one or more processors executing the software. The one or more processors determine whether the old software before the update is stored in the second non-volatile memory mounted in the vehicle when the software needs to be returned to the old software before the update, and store the old software from the second non-volatile ...