ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,331, issued on March 4, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for determining controller area network (CAN) bus loading" was invented by Rahul Agrawal (Vasundhra Enclave, India), Pradeep Singh (Greater Noida West, India), Devendra Bahadur Singh (Lucknow, India) and Arun Kumar Barman (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller area network (CAN) node is described for determining a bus load on a CAN bus. An indication of a time window duration of a time window is received by the CAN node and a start time for determining a bus load and an end time based on the start time and the time windo...