ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,327, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Inspection apparatus and inspection method" was invented by Tsuyoshi Imoto (Tokyo), Naoki Kawahara (Tokyo), Daiki Yagihara (Tokyo) and Taketoshi Uno (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection apparatus, which inspects a CAN communication function of an ECU to be inspected, comprises: a connection unit configured to connect a communication circuit of the ECU and the inspection apparatus on a one-to-one basis; an inspection message creation unit configured to create an inspection message in which a predetermined signal level indicating a higher priority of ...