ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,208, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).
"Ping interval system" was invented by Sandeep Vig (Oakland Township, Mich.) and Scott Thomas Droste (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes data processing hardware and memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware. The memory hardware stores instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include configuring a ping interval protocol for an electronic control unit (ECU), initializing a ping fail counter of ...