ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,457, issued on March 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Vehicle electronic control device, update program, and data structure" was invented by Kazuhiro Uehara (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle electronic control device includes a first execution instruction section that instructs a download processing execution section to execute the download processing, a second execution instruction section that instructs an update target node to execute installation processing and activation processing, and an execution request section that transmits an execution request to the first execution instru...