US Patent Issued to DENSO on Sept. 8 for "Control device and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,981, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Control device and control method" was invented by Takahiro Hirano (Kariya-city, Japan) and Shigeki Nakamura (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a first circuitry that executes a predetermined process, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the first circuitry, and a second circuitry that controls activation and deactivation of the first circuitry based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor. The second circuitry has a first threshold and a second threshold larger than the first threshold as t...