US Patent Issued to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on Sept. 29 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,614, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Yoshiharu Imamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Anzai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshihisa Nakano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU (Electronic Control Unit) includes a HV (HyperVisor), and a first VM (Virtual Machine) and a second VM that operate on the HV. The first VM detects an abnormality in a process in the first VM. When the first VM detects an abnormality, the first VM notifies the second VM of information related to the abnormality via th...