ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,462, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Electronic control device and security verification method for electronic control device" was invented by Hiroki Yamazaki (Ibaraki, Japan), Shuhei Kaneko (Ibaraki, Japan) and Nobuyoshi Morita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a technology to ensure security during fast boot-up. Provided according to the present invention is an electronic control device installed on a mobile body, the electronic control device including a controller which controls a microcomputer using code, a security verifier which makes security verific...