ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,130, issued on July 21, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Vehicle-mounted device, information processing method, and information processing program" was invented by Hitoshi Kono (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Hideki Maeda (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-mounted device includes a processor capable of setting three or more authority levels related to memory access, wherein a higher authority level than authority levels of an OS and an application is set for an abnormality notificatio...