ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,923, issued on July 15, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Electronic control unit" was invented by Shigenori Hayase (Tokyo) and Akira Kuriyama (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit includes: a target information acquiring section that acquires information about a target around a user's vehicle; a storage section that stores management information related to at least either an entrance position or exit position of the target in a predetermined subject area on a basis of the information about the target acquired by the target information acquiring section; and a driving t...