US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 8 for "Vehicle diagnostic device, vehicle diagnostic system, and mobile body diagnostic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,185, issued on April 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Vehicle diagnostic device, vehicle diagnostic system, and mobile body diagnostic device" was invented by Hikaru Maeda (Osaka, Japan), Daisuke Yamahara (Osaka, Japan) and Koichi Mitsushima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle diagnostic device includes: a communication unit that communicates with a vehicle which drives autonomously; and a diagnostic unit that performs, via the communication unit, diagnosis as to whether the vehicle is being hacked. The diagnostic unit performs the diagnosis by checking resilie...