ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,394, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Communication method for a communication network of a vehicle and communication network" was invented by Manjeet Singh Bilra (Hoerlkofen, Germany) and Mohamed-Saad Abdelhameed (Dachau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method for a communication network of a vehicle includes a master data processing unit and a slave data processing unit connected to the master data processing unit via a synchronous serial communication interface. The slave data processing unit is connected to the master data processing unit via a slave select line fo...