ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,801, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Electronic control device and method for setting control data" was invented by Hiroyuki Takada (Hitachinaka, Japan), Koji Yuasa (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Masahiro Sonoda (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control device comprises an electronically rewritable nonvolatile memory which has first storage area and second storage area. The first storage area stores a control program in which control data is embedded, and the second storage area stores a plurality of control data usable for the control program and a rewrite progra...