US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on May 20 for "Information processing device, program update system, and program update method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,231, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Information processing device, program update system, and program update method" was invented by Nobuyoshi Morita (Tokyo), Masashi Yano (Tokyo), Mikio Kataoka (Tokyo), Shuhei Kaneko (Tokyo) and Teruaki Nomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device that executes a program includes: a storage unit that includes a plurality of regions for storing a rewritable program; a calculation unit that executes a program stored in the storage unit; a start region specification unit that specifies, from the plurality of regions, a start...