ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,391, issued on July 14, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Vehicle electronic control device and method thereof" was invented by Masanori Miyao (Kariya-city, Japan) and Mami Shiomi (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle electronic control device, which is mounted on a vehicle and executes a predetermined function of the vehicle, includes: a main processor; a sub processor; and an abnormality determination unit comparing a calculation result of the main processor with a calculation result of the sub processor and determining an abnormality in the main processor based on a comparison result. The pr...