US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on May 20 for "Vehicular control system with synchronized communication between control units" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,726, issued on May 20, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular control system with synchronized communication between control units" was invented by Gaurav Shrikant Patil (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular control system includes a first electronic control unit (ECU) and a second ECU disposed at a vehicle. The first ECU transmits a first propagation delay frame to the second ECU, which, responsive to receiving the first propagation delay frame, transmits a second propagation delay frame to the first ECU. The first ECU, responsive to receiving the second propagation delay frame, determi...