US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Data relay device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,146, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Data relay device for vehicle" was invented by Keisuke Tsuji (Nisshin, Japan), Madoka Hayashiguchi (Toyota, Japan), Kaho Nakamura (Seto, Japan) and Kei Morizumi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The relay device includes multiple communication ports to which the in-vehicle ECU can be connected, a CPU, and a port storage area for each communication port. CPU can perform a reprogramming process for multiple in-vehicle ECUs in parallel. CPU performs: receiving a list of update data that has not been sent to the in-vehicle ECU and a data volume for ...