ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,145, issued on March 3, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"In-vehicle apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Tomohiro Otsu (Yokkaichi, Japan), Takeshi Hagihara (Yokkaichi, Japan), Hirofumi Urayama (Yokkaichi, Japan), Hideki Maeda (Yokkaichi, Japan), Darmawan Go (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Yoshitaka Kikuchi (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle apparatus according to the present disclosure is an in-vehicle apparatus that is mounted in a vehicle and co...