ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,055, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Management device, vehicle communication management method, and storage medium" was invented by Ryo Yamane (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Izumi (Osaka, Japan), Hideyuki Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan), Yoshio Ito (Osaka, Japan), Kenta Ogata (Osaka, Japan), Yoshitaka Kikuchi (Yokkaichi, Japan), Darmawan Go (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Hirofumi Urayama (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management device that includes a processor that...