ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,116, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Electronic control device and write control method" was invented by Yasunori Isozaki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yusuke Abe (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Takahiro Iida (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control device includes: a microcomputer including a processor that executes a predetermined program; and an external nonvolatile memory connected to the microcomputer, in which the microcomputer includes an internal nonvolatile memory, a first communication unit that communicates with the external nonvolatile memory, and a second com...