US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on March 17 for "Secure transport software update" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,955, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Secure transport software update" was invented by Stephen Paul McFarland Jr. (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving a software update at a first component in a target transport, parsing the software update by a second component in the target transport into a first portion of critical updates and a second portion of non-critical updates, verifying the first portion, by the second component, based on a source of the software update, running, by the second component, the verified first p...