ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,068, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Motomune Suzuki (Tokyo) and Hideyuki Sakamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a vehicle control device capable of detecting overheating of a CPU or a heat dissipation failure of the cooling mechanism, while suppressing increases in the size, the number of components, and the cost. A vehicle control device according to the present embodiment includes a memory, a CPU, a temperature sensor that is provided internal of the CPU, and a cooling mechanism that cools the CPU. The memo...