US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Feb. 24 for "Techniques for over-the-air software updates" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,127, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Techniques for over-the-air software updates" was invented by Movses Babayan (Monroe, Wash.), James Shimada (Seattle), Liang Chen (Kirkland, Wash.) and Lifang Pilarski (Gechingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computing systems, and technology for distributing an over-the-air (OTA) vehicle software update are presented. The system can receive a notification having a vehicle identifier from a vehicle. Additionally, the system can determine a task having task attributes for the vehicle to download based on the vehicle identifier. Mor...