US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Sept. 9 for "Switchable terminations based on device identifier on can bus" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,444, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Switchable terminations based on device identifier on can bus" was invented by Yingchang Yang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jaimin Patel (San Francisco), Jason Seitz (Oakland, Calif.), Isaac Brown (San Francisco), Thomas Shelburne (South Lyon, Mich.) and Devin Cass (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of devices are coupled to a control area network (CAN) bus. At least some of the devices include switchable resistors that can apply a termination resistor to the CAN bus. Identification pins are used to identify devices on the CAN bus, and also to i...