ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,032, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Tasuku Ishigooka (Tokyo), Kazuyoshi Serizawa (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Takashi Murakami (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle control device capable of improving safety and availability by determining, in response to a failure of a core, a core to which the software is to be moved, determining whether there is a contention in the timings of execution based on software operations after the software is moved to another core, and making an arbitration when there is a contention. The...