US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Controller area network emulation architecture" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,644, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Controller area network emulation architecture" was invented by Andrew Magdy Kamal (Washington Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Controller Area Network (CAN) message is received from an application emulator. Based on a first file that includes, for each of a plurality of CAN message names, an ECU event identifier, an ECU event included in the CAN message is determined. Based on a second file that maps the ECU event to a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) property, a hardware abstraction layer is invoked; the CAN message is sent to t...