US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Aug. 18 for "Vehicle monitoring device and vehicle monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,817, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle monitoring device and vehicle monitoring method" was invented by Shinnosuke Sugawara (Toyota, Japan), Takeshi Matsui (Nagoya, Japan), Tokuya Inagaki (Kariya-city, Japan), Shogo Watanabe (Kariya-city, Japan) and Ryosuke Murakami (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of a vehicle monitoring device obtains log information of an event that has occurred in a vehicle on-board device, determines whether a diagnosis is necessary based on the obtained log information, and transmits a diagnostic data se...