ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,417, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicle data analysis method and device" was invented by Yuki Horihata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toru Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle data is acquired, and is linked with each vehicle component, first degree of abnormality is determined for each vehicle component. When detecting collision, vehicle data is acquired during self-travelling after the collision. If vehicle is not capable of self-travelling, by referring to post-collision vehicle data etc., second degree of abnormality after the collision is calculated. The first and ...