US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 25 for "Vehicle communication apparatus, in-vehicle network system, and vehicle communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,851, issued on March 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Vehicle communication apparatus, in-vehicle network system, and vehicle communication method" was invented by Yoshihiro Ujiie (Tokyo), Jun Anzai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihiko Kitamura (Tokyo), Masato Tanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideki Matsushima (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Haga (Nara, Japan), Takeshi Kishikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Ryota Sugiyama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit is connected to a network in an in-vehicle network system. The electronic control unit includes a first control cir...