ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,376, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing device and control method for securely performing indirect monitoring of non-secure region of information processing device" was invented by Akihito Takeuchi (Osaka, Japan) and Takumaru Nagai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes: a monitored unit; a first monitor unit that monitors the monitored unit, and repeatedly verifies the monitored unit by comparing a hash value of the monitored unit with a first expected hash value; and a second monitor unit that is more sec...