US Patent Issued to AutoNetworks Technologies, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Sumitomo Electric Industries on July 22 for "On-board device, information processing method, and computer program product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,028, issued on July 22, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"On-board device, information processing method, and computer program product" was invented by Kentaro Ashibe (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tatsuya Izumi (Osaka, Japan) and Ichiro Kanda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-board device includes a processing unit, and a storage unit storing a plurality of programs that are executable by the processing unit, in which the processing unit acquires information relevant to the presence or absence...