US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Nov. 3 for "Communication device and in-vehicle electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,135, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Communication device and in-vehicle electronic device" was invented by Yuji Oishi (Tokyo) and Koji Maeda (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a classification unit that classifies received frames into a plurality of classes, a queueing unit that buffers the frames for each of the classes, a gate unit that opens/closes the frames, a scheduling unit that determines the open/closed state and sets a guard band as a transmission inhibition period at a proximity of a gate open state end time, to ensure a transmissi...