ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,813, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicular electronic control device and update program" was invented by Sho Nakamura (Kariya, Japan), Kazuhiro Uehara (Kariya, Japan), Hideo Yoshimi (Kariya, Japan) and Tomoya Ogawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular electronic control device installed in a vehicle capable of switching between a chargeable state and an unchargeable state performs activation acceptance for inquiring of a user whether to accept activation processing of activating updated software after completion of installation processing of writing update data in an update targ...