US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Sept. 22 for "Software update in-vehicle with a portable device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,266, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Software update in-vehicle with a portable device" was invented by Shun Maruyama (Tokyo) and Hideaki Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle apparatus configured to enable effective software downloading by distributing download tasks among multiple portable devices. An in-vehicle apparatus includes a communicator that communicates with the portable devices, and a processor that acquires speed datasets from the portable devices, each indicating a communication speed between a respective portable device and a server. Based on the speed datasets, the proce...