ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,850, issued on June 24, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Vehicle, data collection system, and method of collecting data of vehicle" was invented by Yu Obe (Kobe, Japan), Kazuya Nagasaka (Kobe, Japan), Shohei Hosokawa (Kobe, Japan) and Takayuki Higashi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a vehicle body; at least one state sensor that is supported by the vehicle body and detects state values that are parameters related to states of the vehicle; a communicator supported by the vehicle body; at least one memory supported by the vehicle body; and processing circuitry supported by the vehic...