US Patent Issued to AutoNetworks Technologies, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Sumitomo Electric Industries on April 7 for "In-vehicle device, time synchronization method, and time synchronization program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,054, issued on April 7, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"In-vehicle device, time synchronization method, and time synchronization program" was invented by Kazuki Kitagawa (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tadashi Matsumoto (Yokkaichi, Japan), Yojiro Suyama (Osaka, Japan), Akihito Iwata (Osaka, Japan) and Ryo Yamane (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle device includes: a processing unit configured to perform time synchronization between own device, which is the in-vehicle device, and another ...