ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,572, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MTD Products Inc (Valley City, Ohio).
"Over the air (OTA) software update for outdoor power equipment" was invented by Michael Medved (Olmsted Township, Ohio) and Christopher Churavy (Lakewood, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that facilitate update of software for outdoor power equipment, including over-the-air (OTA) update, are discussed. One example embodiment is a method of facilitating update of software for an outdoor power equipment, comprising: transmitting associated version information for each microcontroller unit (MCU) of a set of MCUs of the outdoor power equ...