US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for simulating over-the-air software updates for vehicles" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,478, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Systems and methods for simulating over-the-air software updates for vehicles" was invented by Movses Babayan (Monroe, Wash.), James Shimada (Seattle), Leena Singhal (Bothell, Wash.) and Mike Qin (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computing systems, and technology for testing an update controller within a virtual environment are presented. An example computing system accesses data indicative of a rule for distributing the over-the-air (OTA) software update. The computing system determines an action to be taken for implementing ...