US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on March 24 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle system and update system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,452, issued on March 24, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle system and update system" was invented by Tetsuya Yamada (Tokyo), Mikio Kataoka (Tokyo) and Keita Nakazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a program update technique capable of easily managing a software state of an electronic control unit (ECU), and updating an ECU application and a data collecting program in association with each other with management information about the software states matching between a vehicle and a center. A vehicle control device of the pr...