ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,426, issued on March 31, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Control device and control system" was invented by Teruaki Nomura (Tokyo), Nobuyoshi Morita (Tokyo), Masashi Yano (Tokyo), Mikio Kataoka (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Fujii (Tokyo) and Shuhei Kaneko (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to shorten a time required for reprogramming of a control device including a single-bank microcomputer. An ECU 901 is a control device including a first microcomputer 1 and a second microcomputer 2 that execute a program stored in a rewriting area 13 in which a memory bank is configured as a single bank. The second m...