ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,898, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Vehicle-mounted communication system, switch device, functional unit, communication control method, and communication control program" was invented by Yoshihisa Nagamura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-mounted communication system includes multiple switch devices that are mounted on a vehicle. At least one of the multiple switch devices is capable of performing intermediate processing that is intermediate information processing on measurement information from a sensor that is mounted on the vehicle. The at least one of th...