US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES on July 15 for "Relay device, vehicle, communication method, and communication program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,965, issued on July 15, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Relay device, vehicle, communication method, and communication program" was invented by Yusuke Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan), Hideyuki Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Izumi (Osaka, Japan), Yojiro Suyama (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Hagihara (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Darmawan Go (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system including a plurality of in-vehicle networks, information regarding the network configuration of function units connected to different...