US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on July 21 for "Priority determination system and priority determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,308, issued on July 21, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Priority determination system and priority determination method" was invented by Shoichiro Sekiya (Osaka, Japan), Yuishi Torisaki (Osaka, Japan) and Takayoshi Ito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A priority determination system includes: an influenced entity extractor that obtains information indicating a vulnerability related to an ECU and extracts an ECU on which the vulnerability has influence; a calculator that calculates at least two risk values among an ECU risk value indicating a level of risk of a threat to the ECU ca...