ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,809, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"In-vehicle relay device, in-vehicle system, information processing method, and a program" was invented by Hirofumi Urayama (Yokkaichi, Japan), Darmawan Go (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tomohiro Otsu (Yokkaichi, Japan), Yoshitaka Kikuchi (Yokkaichi, Japan), Takeshi Hagihara (Yokkaichi, Japan), Hideki Maeda (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: "An i...