ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,183, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Method for determining layout of ECU" was invented by Keita Goto (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "ECU is laid out based on the number of wires and the diameter of the wires used in the in-vehicle networking. A dividing form of the electric wire for realizing the layout of the respective ECU is determined, and a position of the connector arranged at the dividing position and a number of the connectors are determined. It is determined whether or not an ECU having a lower access difficulty exists, and when the bus to which the security risk ECU is con...