ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,021, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"In-vehicle device, in-vehicle network system, and information processing method" was invented by Kazuki Kitagawa (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kazuyuki Inoue (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tadashi Matsumoto (Yokkaichi, Japan), Ryo Yamane (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Izumi (Osaka, Japan) and Hideyuki Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The in-vehicle device for receiving time synchronization information transmitted from each of a plurality of reference d...