ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,190, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle software update apparatus" was invented by Hideaki Kato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle software update apparatus includes an update control device, an input and output control device, and a communication control device. Before performing a process of updating software of a vehicle, the update control device: determines whether an administrator is on board the vehicle; outputs, via the input and output control device, a guidance notification of the software update process for the vehicle from an output device provided in the vehicle, upon a deter...