US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (ALPS), STMicroelectronics Application, STMicroelectronics on Jan. 13 for "Vehicle communication network" (German, Italian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,169, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (ALPS) SAS (Grenoble, France), STMicroelectronics Application GMBH (Aschheim-Dornach, Germany) and STMicroelectronics S.R.L. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Vehicle communication network" was invented by Fred Rennig (Nandlstadt, Germany), Giovanni Luca Torrisi (Catania, Italy), Manuel Gaertner (Feldkirchen, Germany), Philippe Sirito-Olivier (Martigues, France), Fritz Burkhardt (Munich) and Aldo Occhipinti (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle communication network includes electronic control units arranged in a plurality of groups. The electronic control units pe...