ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,746, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Controller area network module and a method for the CAN module" was invented by Bernd Uwe Gerhard Elend (Hamburg, Germany) and Matthias Berthold Muth (Stelle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a CAN controller module. The CAN controller module is configured to detect transmission errors during transmissions of bits of a CAN frame via a CAN but and to handle these transmission errors robustly such that a high transmission rate is possible even if the transmission errors occur. The present disclosure also relates to a method...