ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,544, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KYB Corp. (Tokyo).

"Arithmetic device and computer program" was invented by Kazunori Kenjo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arithmetic device includes a communication unit that communicates with another instrument, a first activation unit to which a first address is set, and a second activation unit to which a second address is set and at which a computer program can be updated by the first activation unit. When having determined that information of update that can be performed by the first activation unit is included in information acquir...