US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Software management system, storage medium, and software update method" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,223, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Software management system, storage medium, and software update method" 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 software management system includes: a vehicle including a control device storing software and a display device; and a server including one or more processors that update the software by wireless communication. When a first error due to the server occurs, the one or more processors cancel software update and...