ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,441, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Apparatus for a controller area network" was invented by Rolf van de Burgt (Laag Zuthem, Netherlands), Bernd Uwe Gerhard Elend (Hamburg, Germany) and Thierry G. C. Walrant (Bouge, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use with a Controller Area Network ("CAN") transceiver includes a first input for receiving transmit-data and a second input for receiving receive-data. The transmit-data includes data generated by a CAN controller to cause a CAN transceiver to transmit signalling that represents the transmit-data on the CAN bus and the receive...