ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,348, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Vehicle-mounted relay device, vehicle-mounted communication system, and communication control method" was invented by Darmawan Go (Yokkaichi, Japan), Hirofumi Urayama (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tomohiro Otsu (Yokkaichi, Japan), Yoshitaka Kikuchi (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tatsuya Izumi (Osaka, Japan), Hideyuki Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle-mounted relay device in a vehicle-mounted communic...