ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,963, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device and vehicle control system" was invented by Swarn Singh Rathour (Tokyo), Tasuku Ishigooka (Tokyo), Hideyuki Sakamoto (Tokyo), Takeshi Fukuda (Tokyo) and Fumio Narisawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control device and a vehicle control system capable of further reducing system cost in failure mitigation. The vehicle control device includes a master ECU and one or more client ECUs. The master ECU generates a safety process list on a basis of a predetermined failure o...