ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,500, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"In-vehicle equipment, vehicle, and method" was invented by Daisuke Saito (Tokyo) and Yuki Hirono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle equipment includes: a signal detection unit configured to detect a signal expected to be input to a communication network at a predetermined input cycle; a counting unit configured to count the number of times a signal is detected by the signal detection unit; and a determination unit configured to determine whether the number of times counted by the counting unit within a predetermined first period is equal to or les...