ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,971, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan).

"Detection device, detection method, and detection program" was invented by Hiroyuki Tsukamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Ueda (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes: a monitoring unit configured to monitor a periodic message and an event message as messages in an in-vehicle network, each message having, assigned thereto, identification information of a transmission source and a sequence number; a counter uni...