US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "Program update method, program update system and mobile object" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,600, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Program update method, program update system and mobile object" was invented by Austin Joseph Blanchard (Dublin, Ohio) and Genta Inoue (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile object comprises an acquisition processor acquiring new program from an external apparatus via a network; a rewriting control processor performing a rewriting control of rewriting a program of an electronic control unit equipped with the mobile object, the rewriting being performed by using the acquired new program during drive of the mobile object is disabled; a storage compart...