ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,522, issued on July 15, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Electronic control device" was invented by Kei Okumura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an electronic control device. The electronic control device includes a memory unit, a control executing unit, and a test executing unit. The memory unit includes a rewritable region, which stores a control program, and a non-rewritable region, which stores test data and an anticipated test result. The control executing unit acquires input data and calculates a control value by executing the control program using the input data. The t...