MUMBAI, India, Nov. 21 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517098778 A) filed by Marelli Europe S. P. A., Corbetta, Italy, on Oct. 13, for 'vehicle electronic control unit, vehicle system and software.'
Inventor(s) include Fusari, Alessandro; Di Giulio, Dionisio; Romano, Amedeo; Canullo, Cecilia; and Sgatti, Stefano.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 21, under issue no. 47/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A vehicle electronic control unit (1) designed to execute one or more vehicle control functions of the operation of a vehicle system with a given level of vehicle safety integrity. A vehicle control function is configured to cause the vehicle system to operate in a nominal operating mode, wherein the vehicle system is caused to operate with nominal performances. The vehicle electronic control unit (1) is further configured to: monitor the execution of the vehicle control functions to detect faults in the execution of the vehicle control functions, which result in the violation of a safety target established by the level of vehicle safety integrity; in case a fault in the execution of a vehicle control function is detected, trigger an emergency reaction to the detected fault, which involves performing an emergency function to cause the vehicle system to operate in an emergency operating mode, which is aimed at avoiding the violation of the safety target established by the level of vehicle safety integrity and wherein the vehicle system is caused to operate with degraded performances; monitor the operation of the vehicle system in the emergency operating mode to determine whether the emergency function is reaching its target or not; and in case the emergency function fails to reach its target, trigger a safety reaction, which involves performing a safety function, which is aimed at causing the vehicle system to reach a safety state."
The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 13, 2024, under International application No.PCT/IB2024/052425.
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