Patents by Inventor Andrij A Birko

Andrij A Birko has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Flash loader for vehicle electronic control units
    Patent number: 6925365
    Abstract: A flashloader having a standard module for receiving programming instructions and an application program via a communications port of a vehicle controller, where the flashloader further provides an MCU module for writing the received application program to reprogrammable memory within the vehicle controller, and an ECU module for determining whether a valid application program has been stored in the reprogrammable memory. Upon detection of a valid application program a microprocessor of the vehicle controller executes instructions from the reprogrammable memory and upon detection of an invalid application program the microprocessor continues to execute instructions from the bootloader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Corporation
    Inventors: William V Luitje, Thomas H Pruett, Andrij A Birko
  • Flash loader for vehicle electronic control units
    Publication number: 20040078119
    Abstract: A flashloader having a standard module for receiving programming instructions and an application program via a communications port of a vehicle controller, where the flashloader further provides an MCU module for writing the received application program to reprogrammable memory within the vehicle controller, and an ECU module for determining whether a valid application program has been stored in the reprogrammable memory. Upon detection of a valid application program a microprocessor of the vehicle controller executes instructions from the reprogrammable memory and upon detection of an invalid application program the microprocessor continues to execute instructions from the bootloader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: William V. Luitje, Thomas H. Pruett, Andrij A. Birko