ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,367, issued on April 29, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"In-vehicle/out-vehicle cooperation device and method" was invented by Akihiro Ogawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle/out-vehicle cooperation device includes a data receiving unit configured to receive sensor data from the plurality of sensors via an in-vehicle network, an inter-end delay time estimation unit configured to estimate a transmission delay time of sensor data between ends from each of the plurality of sensors to a predetermined device communicable by a wireless communication device, a value determination un...