US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 10 for "Mobile terminal and software distribution system" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,395, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Mobile terminal and software distribution system" was invented by Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroshi Inoue (Nagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Tanimori (Arlington, Va.) and Nana Kikuire (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile terminal includes: one or more memories; and one or more processors configured to receive, from a vehicle, pre-update software of a single-bank computer mounted on the vehicle; and transmit, to the vehicle, update software acquired from a server after the received pre-update software is stored in the one or more memories."...