ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,140, issued on March 18, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"On-vehicle device and communication system" was invented by Katsuhiro Hoshino (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Takaki Itaya (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abnormality of a component can be accurately detected.An on-vehicle device is an on-vehicle device that is mounted on a vehicle to communicate with a server. The on-vehicle device includes a first information generation unit that generates first information which is information on a state of a first component mounted on the vehicle by using an output of a sensor mounted on the vehicl...