ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,035, issued on March 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Determining super frame packet generation times" was invented by Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, Texas), Ramanuja Vedantham (Frisco, Texas) and Jesus Daniel Torres Bardales (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, a vehicular battery management system (BMS) comprises a set of battery cells and a secondary network node coupled to the set of battery cells. The secondary network node is configured to measure a parameter in the set of battery cells and generate a packet containing the parameter. The packet indicates a number of super frame slots that hav...