ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,954, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Context aware vehicle over-the-air (OTA) software/firmware (SW/FW) update" was invented by Soumya Das (San Diego) and Mohsen Bahrami (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include methods for performing a software/firmware (SW/FW) update of a vehicle without draining the vehicle's battery below a threshold. A vehicle processing system may receive a SW/FW update inquiry that specifies a permissible time window for implementing the update and predict a residual vehicle battery level (RVBL) resulting from receiving and implementing the up...