US Patent Issued to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems on Sept. 1 for "System and method for power line communications over a standard tractor-trailer electrical connection" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,229, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC (Avon, Ohio).

"System and method for power line communications over a standard tractor-trailer electrical connection" was invented by William R. Plow (Avon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for transmitting and receiving communications formed using different communication protocols between members of a tractor-trailer over an SAE J560 standard electrical connection includes one or more communication hubs. Each hub includes one or more power converters, one more power line communication codec and a controller. The controller establishes one or mo...