US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on March 24 for "Software updates based on transport-related actions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,451, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Software updates based on transport-related actions" was invented by Stephen Paul McFarland Jr. (Allen, Texas) and Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a transport, over an open wireless network an encrypted software update and receiving, by the transport, over a closed wireless network a one-time key to decrypt the encrypted software update, wherein the one-time key is received while the transport is in motion and about to perform an action related to the...