ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,280, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle control system and method for controlling vehicle control system" was invented by Jun Anzai (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshihisa Nakano (Osaka, Japan) and Kento Tamura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes: a detector that detects an attack on an application; a vehicle state verifier that verifies a state of a vehicle when the detector detects the attack; an influence verifier that verifies, based on a verification result of the vehicle state verifier, an influence on the vehicle assuming operat...