ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,254, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Secure signed file upload" was invented by Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, Texas), Edward Allen Cain Jr. (Plano, Texas) and Stephen Paul McFarland Jr. (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving at a server at least one of a component calibration file and a component configuration file from a vehicle, receiving at the server a file signature of the at least one of the component calibration file and the component configuration file from the vehicle, parsing via the server the at least one of t...