ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,506, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Driving diagnostic device, driving diagnostic method, and storage medium" was invented by Yukiya Kushibiki (Gifu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving diagnostic device includes a processor, in which the processor acquires state information indicating an open or closed state of a door of a vehicle from a sensor mounted on the vehicle, determines that there is an event that indicates a change in the state when the state information satisfies a predetermined condition, and evaluates a driving operation of the vehicle in a predetermined period of...