ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,953, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"In-vehicle device, vehicle movement analysis system" was invented by Kyoko Ishida (Tokyo), Goshi Sasaki (Tokyo) and So Sasatani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a technique for suppressing a data capacity by appropriately selecting a data item that needs to be collected in order to analyze an accident situation or the like. An in-vehicle device according to the present invention acquires data describing a state of a vehicle and a surrounding situation of the vehicle, and selects and outputs a record...