ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,094, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Tasuku Ishigooka (Tokyo) and Kazuyoshi Serizawa (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a verification management unit that executes old control software unit 112 representing an old version of control software and new control software unit 113 representing a new version of control software in sequence or in parallel, and an output verification unit that when an output value from old control software unit 112 and an output value from new control software unit 113 do no...