US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on May 19 for "In-vehicle computer system and autonomous driving assistance system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,168, issued on May 19, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"In-vehicle computer system and autonomous driving assistance system" was invented by Swarn Singh Rathour (Tokyo), Tasuku Ishigooka (Tokyo), Satoshi Otsuka (Tokyo) and Hideyuki Sakamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technology capable of adding a new function by updating a program of an in-vehicle computer system. An in-vehicle computer system includes a plurality of ECUs. Each ECU is able to communicate with at least one other ECU via a communication bus. An in-vehicle computer system includes a measurement means that measures an EC...