US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on April 14 for "Software component update system, and software component update method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,221, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Software component update system, and software component update method" was invented by Miki Yamada (Ibaraki, Japan), Takafumi Suzuki (Ibaraki, Japan) and Takashi Matsubara (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software component update system is connected to a first database and a second database and includes a component tree rebuilding unit that rebuilds a software component tree of the second database on the basis of tag information and software component tree information of the first database; a component extraction unit that specifies...