ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,470, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Center device, on-vehicle device, and safety confirmation system" was invented by Chiharu Kataoka (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A center device includes a controller configured to: receive vehicle information related to a behavior of a vehicle from an on-vehicle device; in a case where detecting an occurrence of an abnormality from the vehicle information, request a camera image inside the vehicle from the on-vehicle device; in a case where there presents no response to the request from the on-vehicle device, transmit a control signal for forcibly tran...