US Patent Issued on Sept. 29 for "Automotive network bus message suppression for reducing battery drain" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,846, issued on Sept. 29.

"Automotive network bus message suppression for reducing battery drain" was invented by Steven T. DiLodovico (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), Eric R. Paton (Sylvan Lake, Mich.), Cameron Kachur (Dearborn, Mich.) and Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic controller module in a vehicle is powered by a battery during a Key-Off state. The electronic controller module has a bus interface for transmitting messages to and receiving messages from a multiplex bus, wherein the messages include a periodic sequence of Network Management (NM) messages transmitted during a normal ope...