ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,678, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device" was invented by Satoshi Kawashima (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: a monitoring unit that monitors a storage amount and a temperature of a battery that supplies electric power for executing a software update process; a determination unit that determines whether or not the storage amount of the battery is equal to or greater than the first storage amount and whether or not the temperature of the battery is equal to or greater than the first temperature; and a control unit that, when the temperature of...