US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on June 17 for "Electronic control device and updating method for control software" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,013, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Electronic control device and updating method for control software" was invented by Shun Kinugasa (Hitachinaka, Japan), Kenji Ando (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Yusuke Abe (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique for enabling software having different memory maps to be written in a nonvolatile memory of an electronic control device in reprogramming of control software.The electronic control device includes a microcomputer including a CPU and a nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory includes activation software, control ...