ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,293, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Device, system, method, and program for responding to security events in a vehicle when wireless communication with a security center cannot be performed" was invented by Kunihiro Miyauchi (Toyota, Japan) and Takeshi Sugashima (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device, comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire security event information for a vehicle from another information processing device installed in the vehicle; and in cases in which wireless comm...