ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,429, issued on May 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle electronic control system, self-retention power execution control method and computer program product" was invented by Yuzo Harata (Kariya, Japan), Kazuhiro Uehara (Kariya, Japan), Takuya Hasegawa (Kariya, Japan), Takuya Kawasaki (Kariya, Japan) and Kazuaki Hayakawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle electronic control system, a vehicle master device includes a vehicle power determination unit that is configured to determine a vehicle power is on, a rewrite-in-progress determination unit that is configured to determine whether rewriti...