ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,210, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Virtual can bus" was invented by Benjamin T. Lindow (Plano, Texas), James Andrew Mialkowski (Plano, Texas), Jan Paul Reguero-Inserni (Plano, Texas) and Nathan Humpal (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of establishing a network channel between a network interface of a computing system and a network interface of a remote computing system coupled to an electronic control unit (ECU), receiving, via a hardware interface of the computing system, a CAN message f...