ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,719, issued on May 5, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Monitoring system and control method" was invented by Ryo Hirano (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiharu Imamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shoichiro Sekiya (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated ECU includes: a host virtual machine; an anomaly detector that detects a security anomaly in the host virtual machine; a service list storage that stores a service list indicating a list of a plurality of services executed by the in-vehicle system; a determiner that determines a specific service from among the plurality of services indicated in ...