ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,564, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Communication system and relay device" was invented by Shinnosuke Sugawara (Toyota, Japan), Tokuya Inagaki (Kariya, Japan), Shogo Watanabe (Kariya, Japan) and Ryosuke Murakami (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system includes a relay device and a diagnosis target device. The relay device includes a port configured to connect a diagnostic tool. The diagnosis target device is connected to the relay device via a bus. The relay device determines whether a communication path of diagnostic data for diagn...