US Patent Issued to DENSO on Jan. 13 for "Electronic control unit and storage medium storing software redundancy establishing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,311, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Electronic control unit and storage medium storing software redundancy establishing program" was invented by Tatsuya Kasashima (Kariya, Japan) and Kazuki Kashiwabara (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit includes a controller configured to set one of a first storage section and a second storage section as an active area, and set another one of the first storage section and the second storage section as an inactive area. The controller rewrites the software in the inactive area into software identical to the software in the active ...