ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,576, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Communication system" was invented by Tsuyoshi Yamada (Kariya-city, Japan), Takehiro Nagato (Kariya-city, Japan) and Masaya Taki (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reception unit of a microcomputer includes a plurality of signal acquisition units and one transmission trigger signal generation unit. Each of the signal acquisition units is connected to a respective sensor element of a sensor device corresponding thereto via a corresponding communication channel, and, when the communication channels are in a transmittable state, sensor values tran...