ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,467, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Vehicle monitoring program, vehicle-mounted device, and vehicle monitoring method for selecting an abnormality process in accordance with an adverse effect level" was invented by Junji Yano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle monitoring program of the present disclosure is a vehicle monitoring program for use in a vehicle-mounted device to be mounted in a vehicle, the program causing a computer included in the vehicle-mounted device to function as: a monitoring unit configured to detect an abnormality of application software ...