US Patent Issued to B ayerische M otoren W erke A ktiengesellschaft on May 27 for "LIN bus via backbone bus tunneling" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,476, issued on May 27, was assigned to B ayerische M otoren W erke A ktiengesellschaft (Munich).

"LIN bus via backbone bus tunneling" was invented by Florian Brummer (Geisenfeld, Germany) and Helmut Kellermann (Oberschleissheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a system for transmitting data in a motor vehicle. A central electronic control unit comprises at least one LIN master, and at least one local controller, which is coupled to the central controller by means of a first data connection. The local controller is additionally coupled to a LIN bus, which is paired with the LIN master and to which at least...