ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,902, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring device, monitoring method, and monitoring program" was invented by Takuma Koyama (Tokyo) and Masashi Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device includes processing circuitry configured to use a normal communication model of communication between ECUs of a vehicle and determine, for each of packets transmitted and received by the ECUs, whether or not the packet is abnormal, when any one of the packets is determined to be abnormal, determine a series of packets from a same service and a same transmission source as the packet determined to be abn...