US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Ota master, update control method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,425, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Ota master, update control method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle" was invented by Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Shunsuke Tanimori (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Over-The-Air (OTA) master includes: a communication device configured to receive update data for software on a target electronic control unit from a center; a storage device configured to store the update data; and a processor configured to: control a process of software update for the target electronic control unit based on the update data; cause the storage...