ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,519, issued on May 27, 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 and information processing method" was invented by Naoki Adachi (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted relay device that relays data flowing through a vehicle-mounted network mounted in a vehicle, including a control unit that controls processing relating to relaying of the data, wherein the control unit derives a threshold relating to a state of the vehicle-mounted network, ...