ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,843, issued on March 4, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).
"Management of transport software updates" was invented by Louis Brugman (Frisco, Texas), Devang H. Parekh (Dallas) and Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport of a subset of transports, validating the software update based on one or more of: a period of time when the software update is in use, and a number of utilizations of the software update by the subset of the transports, propagating the software update based on the validati...