ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,783, issued on June 23, was assigned to BOSCH CAR MULTIMEDIA PORTUGAL S.A. (Braga, Portugal).

"Can transceiver monitor" was invented by Marco Antonio Da Silva Esteves (Braga, Portugal), Emanuel Jose Rodrigues Da Silva (Covelas, Portugal) and Jose Rui Amorim Gomes (Braga, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CAN Transceiver monitor configured to perform operational tests without polluting the data transfer bus with test messages, while maintaining the CAN controller without any error flag triggered and with the message sent validated. Since the monitor handles the testing and cuts the connection to the network, none of the test m...