ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,346, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Autonetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan).

"In-vehicle device, method, computer program, driving assistance server, and driving assistance method" was invented by Akihiro Ogawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle device includes: a wireless communication device; a driving support device for performing driving support for a vehicle by using driving support information received from an external server through the wireless communication device; an operation determina...