ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,357, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Systems and methods for secure startup of arithmetic processing devices" was invented by Nobuyoshi Morita (Tokyo), Masashi Yano (Tokyo), Shuhei Kaneko (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Fujii (Tokyo), Mikio Kataoka (Tokyo) and Teruaki Nomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for safe startup, comprising a control apparatus. The control apparatus includes a first arithmetic processing device for executing a first program, a second arithmetic processing device for executing a second program, and a storag...