US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Sept. 23 for "Communication system, relay device, and diagnosis target device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,206, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Communication system, relay device, and diagnosis target 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. When the diagnosis target device has received specific da...