ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,126, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Osamu Maeda (Tokyo), Mitsuru Homma (Tokyo), Hajime Hasegawa (Tokyo), Daisuke Yase (Tokyo) and Tatsuya Maekoba (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus according to the present disclosure includes two or more computing processing units, storage apparatuses in each of which a program is stored, an in-vehicle communication channel, an outside-communication unit that receives updating-program information and data related to an updating program, a program sorting unit that sorts updating program i...