ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,914, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle-mounted control device" was invented by Naomichi Yamaguchi (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yuta Tanaka (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Jin Sato (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-mounted control device capable of detecting disconnection failure of a GND line 104 of an electronic control device 100 without adding a circuit and identifying between disconnection failure of the GND line 104 of the electronic control device 100 and disconnection failure of an electric load is realized. The vehicle-mounted control device 100 is supplied with...