US Patent Issued to ISUZU MOTORS, Transtron on Sept. 16 for "Ground short failure detection device and node device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,691, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo) and Transtron Inc. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Ground short failure detection device and node device" was invented by Akira Nakanishi (Fujisawa, Japan), Atsushi Uwabachi (Fujisawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Nohara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kouhei Takama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This ground short failure detection device can improve the accuracy of determining a ground short failure. The ground short failure detection device changes the potential of each of two signal lines, and transmits or receives data between a plurality of node devices. The ground short failure...