US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National University on March 25 for "Device and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,830, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National University (Yokohama, Japan).

"Device and method" was invented by Yosuke Maekawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Camille Gay (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Tsutomu Matsumoto (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a first interface unit connected to a first controller area network (CAN) bus, a second interface unit connected to a second CAN bus, and a control unit configured to identify, in a case where transmission of a CAN frame is started, a CAN bus detected to be in a dominant state first aft...