US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Software update apparatus, update control method, non-transitory storage medium storing update control program, server, OTA master, and center" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,628, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Software update apparatus, update control method, non-transitory storage medium storing update control program, server, OTA master, and center" was invented by Shoichi Nagamitsu (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software update apparatus controls software update of an electronic control unit. The software update apparatus includes a control unit configured to, when a software update process of the electronic control unit is executed, control a timing for executing an approval request process for requesting an approval for the software update ...