ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,461, issued on March 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"In-vehicle communication system and transmission path evaluation method" was invented by Takeshi Imou (Tokyo), Takumi Nomura (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Morishita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle communication system includes communication transmission paths, a first electronic device and second electronic devices each of which is connected directly/indirectly with the first electronic device through the communication transmission path(s), the first electronic device includes an evaluation unit sending a predetermined evaluation signal to the second e...