ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,098, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Node re-mapping technique for a bus-based communication system" was invented by Michael Potts (Lenox Township, Mich.) and Sudhakaran Maydiga (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bus-based communication includes a primary node, one or more secondary nodes that are each assigned an original node identifier, and a bus electrically connecting the primary node and the one or more secondary nodes with one another based on a bus-based communication protocol. The bus-based communication protocol defines a predefined number of sequentially numbere...