US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on July 29 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,169, issued on July 29, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Ryo Tsuchiya (Hitachinaka, Japan), Kazuyoshi Serizawa (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Koji Maeda (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of reducing the processor load of an integrated circuit that processes information aggregated in a zone architecture. A network engine (210) of this vehicle control device receives data containing a plurality of pairs of the information and a source address of the information according to a first communication protocol (Protocol A)...