ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,939, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Apparatus for a controller area network" was invented by Bernd Uwe Gerhard Elend (Hamburg, Germany), Rolf van de Burgt (Laag Zuthem, Netherlands) and Thierry G. C. Walrant (Bouge, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for a controller area network, CAN, node, the node comprising a CAN controller and a CAN transceiver that is configured to couple to a CAN bus, the apparatus comprising a CAN protocol decoder and circuitry, the apparatus configured to: receive an RX-bitstream generated by the CAN transceiver for the CAN controller; receive a TX-bitst...