ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,716, issued on March 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Controller area network system and a method for the system" was invented by Thierry G. C. Walrant (Bouge, Belgium), Georg Olma (Grasbrunn, Germany) and Karthik Sivaramakrishnan (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a Controller Area Network (CAN) system including: a CAN device and a monitoring device. The CAN device includes a transmit data (TXD) interface, a transmitter, a CAN BUS interface, and a control unit. The control unit reads out an identifier from a TXD message and compares the identifier with a r...