ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,680, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control system, control device, control program update method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Tomoki Shibutani (Nisshin, Japan), Keita Kinoshita (Toyota, Japan), Kazuyoshi Shiohara (Nagoya, Japan) and Masaki Miyake (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a plurality of control devices each including a plurality of storage areas. Each of the control devices is configured to: execute a control program stored in a storage area set as an execution storage area; execute switching preparation in a state in whic...