US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on March 17 for "Electronic control device and flow rate measurement system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,091, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Electronic control device and flow rate measurement system" was invented by Hiroto Ishikawa (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kunihiko Suzuki (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control device includes: a flow rate calculation unit that calculates a flow rate of intake air based on an output signal of a flow rate measurement device assembled to an intake pipe; a flow rate correction value calculation unit that calculates an average value, a maximum value, and a minimum value of the flow rate of the intake air, calculated by the fl...