US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle control device and electronic control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,656, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and electronic control system" was invented by Hideyuki Sakamoto (Hitachinaka, Japan), Teppei Hirotsu (Tokyo), Taisuke Ueta (Tokyo) and Hidetatsu Yamamoto (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are realized a vehicle control device and an electronic control system with high reliability capable of safely shifting control even when an operation abnormality occurs in a sensor around a vehicle or an arithmetic block that processes sensor fusion. The vehicle control device includes a first arithmetic block which performs...