ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,369, issued on June 10, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"In-vehicle management device and management method" was invented by Tomohiro Otsu (Yokkaichi, Japan), Takeshi Hagihara (Yokkaichi, Japan), Hirofumi Urayama (Yokkaichi, Japan), Darmawan Go (Yokkaichi, Japan), Yoshitaka Kikuchi (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: "The in-vehicle management device includes:...