US Patent Issued to PACCAR on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for using a mobile device to manage an over-the-air vehicle software update" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,047, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for using a mobile device to manage an over-the-air vehicle software update" was invented by Adrian David (Kent, Wash.), Alan Yip (Kent, Wash.), Chad Maxwell (Seattle), Hilario Koyama (Bothell, Wash.) and Andrew P. Harbach (Argyle, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, techniques for initiating over-the-air software updates for a vehicle using a mobile computing device are provided. In some embodiments, the vehicle and the mobile computing device each communicate with a server computing system, but do not communicate directl...