ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,857, issued on March 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Attack detection method, attack detection system, and recording medium" was invented by Takashi Ushio (Tokyo) and Takamitsu Sasaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attack detection method includes determining a sampling rule including a sampling interval and a sampling time on the basis of at least one of a statistic indicating a variation in sensor values included in the sensor data or event information on the mobility entity, which indicates the timing of a change in sensor values; generating sampling...