ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,285, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Threat analysis method and threat analysis system" was invented by Hiroyuki Wada (Kyoto, Japan), Yusuke Nemoto (Hyogo, Japan), Minehisa Nagata (Osaka, Japan) and Hatsuho Aoshima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threat analysis method includes acquiring system configuration information indicating hardware components of a system for which threat analysis is performed, function allocation information indicating functions allocated to the hardware components, an asset information indicating assets used in each function, and ass...