US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 3 for "Dynamically configuring a network of ECUs" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,395, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Dynamically configuring a network of ECUs" was invented by Benjamin T. Lindow (Plano, Texas), James Andrew Mialkowski (Plano, Texas), Jan Paul Reguero-Inserni (Plano, Texas) and Nathan Humpal (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of establishing a network connection between a plurality of ECUs via a bus, receiving a request to perform a software test, dynamically configuring a subset of ECUs among the plurality of ECUs for executing the software test via the ...