US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 30 for "Electronic communication system and signal transmission method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,602, issued on June 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electronic communication system and signal transmission method" was invented by Tomoya Tokunaga (Tokyo) and Tatsuroh Saitoh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic communication system includes: a vehicle control unit that controls a functional unit mounted in a vehicle; and a higher-order control unit, wherein the vehicle control unit and the higher-order control unit are connected through a lower-order communication line, a plurality of the higher-order control units are connected to each other through a higher-order communication line, and the highe...