ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,980, issued on June 23, was assigned to BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Software update method and device" was invented by Xichao Fan (Beijing), Zhipeng Lu (Beijing), Biqi Li (Beijing), Yazhou Ren (Beijing), Yali Wang (Beijing) and Feng Qu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software update method includes: receiving, by a target vehicle, first indication information, the first indication information being used to instruct to report version information of target software; sending, by the target vehicle, current version information of the target software configu...