ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,282, issued on July 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Sanada (Tokyo), Nozomi Yamada (Tokyo) and Takuya Kono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present disclosure, after starting software updating, a power-source remaining capacity decreasing amount is detected and then it is determined whether or not the software updating can be continued, so that high-stability software updating can be performed. A vehicle control apparatus includes a storage apparatus in which software has been written, a reception unit that receives updating software, a power-source-r...