ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,123, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Center, method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Shunsuke Tanimori (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A center includes one or more processors configured to: execute communication between a vehicle and an information terminal associated with the vehicle; determine a communication state between the vehicle and the information terminal; control software update processing of an electronic control unit mounted on the vehicle based on an update approval notification received from the information ...