ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,520, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Vehicle data collection device and vehicle data collection system" was invented by Yuto Imanishi (Tokyo), Ryosuke Ishida (Ibaraki, Japan), Yoshiyuki Yoshida (Ibaraki, Japan) and Koji Maeda (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle data collection device includes a setting unit which determines a collection setting that is setting information for each ECU corresponding to a collection request; a collection condition determination unit which sets a collection condition based on the collection setting, and determines whether the collection condit...