ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,951, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL N.V. (Geneva).
"Device for CAN bus" was invented by Nicolas Moeneclaey (Vourey, France), Gilles Troussel (Grenoble, France) and Christophe Tourniol (Vif, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to device including first and second terminals connected to a bus, third and fourth terminals connected to power supply and reference potentials. A first transistor and a first resistor are in series between the first terminal and a first diode connected to the third terminal. A second resistor, a second transistor and a second diode are in seri...