US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 23 for "Electronic control system for vehicle firmware" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,961, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electronic control system for vehicle firmware" was invented by Kotaro Wakiguchi (Kariya, Japan) and Koji Hashimoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control system includes: a master controller that: receives an update program and an update information file including information related to a program update; and transfers the update information file and the update program; a sub-controller that: writes an update program into a first memory; and receives the update information file and the update prog...