ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,469, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Electronic control unit and access control method" was invented by Tomohito Ebina (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit includes: a processor that executes a program; a memory that is enabled to be accessed by the processor; an access violation detection mechanism that monitors an access from the processor to the memory; and a time storage mechanism that stores detection time at which an access violation is detected by the access violation detection mechanism, in which the processor stores switching time at timing at w...