US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Electronic control unit, method, and storage medium of setting shared/dedicated area write limit based on life time consumption information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,939, issued on March 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electronic control unit, method, and storage medium of setting shared/dedicated area write limit based on life time consumption information" was invented by Tomohiro Takahashi (Kariya, Japan), Kenshi Inotani (Nagakute, Japan) and Norihide Kohmoto (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By an electronic control unit including a storage that has a shared area shared by a plurality of unspecified applications and a dedicated area used by a predetermined specific application, a use limit notification method performed in ...