ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,210, issued on June 3, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Electronic control device" was invented by Takumi Masubuchi (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Masahiro Doi (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Even when a power supply relay cannot be turned off and when power supply to a microcomputer is normally cut off, fixing of the power supply relay is detected. An electronic control device 100 according to an aspect of the present invention includes a relay drive circuit 13 that controls on and off of a power supply relay 12 according to information about the on and off of power supply, an electronic circuit...