ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,165, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Communication system" was invented by Manahiro Morita (Kariya-city, Japan), Tomohisa Kishigami (Kariya-city, Japan) and Taku Inagawa (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system includes a plurality of communication nodes that relay fault diagnosis communication of a diagnosis request and q diagnosis result between a request source and a request destination of the fault diagnosis. A communication setting unit of one of the communication nodes increases a priority of a priority parameter indicating the priority of communication wh...