ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,952, issued on March 17, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Update control device, update control method, and update control program" was invented by Fumihide Goto (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An update control device for managing update includes: a first acquisition section acquires a first update file group including at least one file via wireless communication; a second acquisition section acquires a second update file group including at least one file via wired communication; a determination section determines a common file and a difference file; a decision section configured to decide on an...