ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,400, issued on April 8, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Yokkaichi, Japan).

"Relay device, in-vehicle communication system, in-vehicle communication method, and storage medium" was invented by Yusuke Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan), Hideyuki Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Izumi (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Hagihara (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Darmawan Go (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a relay device including: a relay unit configured to perform a relay process for a frame transmitted and received between the...