US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on May 20 for "Electronic control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,508, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Electronic control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Koji Maeda (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kenji Kogo (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cost is reduced when a duplication configuration including up to a power supply is adopted. An in-vehicle electronic control device that executes calculation processing of vehicle control using information acquired by an external sensor includes: a first calculation unit that executes the calculation processing; and a second calculation unit that is communicably connected to the first calculation...