ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,868, issued on March 25, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"On-vehicle device and log management method" was invented by Shoichiro Sekiya (Osaka Fu, Japan), Yuishi Torisaki (Osaka Fu, Japan) and Takayoshi Ito (Osaka Fu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-vehicle device according to the present disclosure is capable of communicating with a server and mounted on a vehicle. The on-vehicle device includes a memory, and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to: receive, from the server, a log acquisition requirement including an anomaly detected poi...