ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,224, issued on March 3, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular control system having a plurality of electronic control units" was invented by Albert Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sertac Karaman (Cambridge, Mass.), Ryan C.C. Chin (Boston), Jenny Larios Berlin (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) and Ramiro Almeida (Key Biscayne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular control system includes a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs), each providing a respective quantity of computational units representative of an amount of processing power of the respective ECU. The ECUs operate a vehicle in a nominal aut...