ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,827, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Failure management system and failure management method" was invented by Kyohei Otani (Tokyo), Takashi Tsujioka (Tokyo) and Tadahiko Kanoh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A failure management device includes: an information collection unit configured to collect failure information which is information about a failure of devices or instruments loaded in a vehicle; a notification unit configured to output a failure notice notifying occurrence of the failure inside the vehicle; and an instruction unit configured to instruct the notification unit whether or not ...