ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,102, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"In-vehicle system and electronic control device" was invented by Kota Ideguchi (Tokyo) and Hirofumi Nakakoji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When occurrence of a security event related to a security abnormality is detected, a detection device transmits a countermeasure request message including detected content of the security event to a countermeasure reader device. When the countermeasure request message is received from the detection device, the countermeasure reader device specifies countermeasure content for the security event and transmits ...