ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,059, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Over the air analytics" was invented by Sergei Gage (Dallas), Yusra El-Sharkawy (Murphy, Texas) and Jiju Thomas (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for use with over-the-air (OTA) analytic data corresponding to OTA aggregate data associated with an OTA push of a software update to a plurality of devices. The system includes: a data receiver configured to receive the OTA aggregate data; a memory having instructions stored therein; and a processor configured to execute the instru...