US Patent Issued to Hondata on Aug. 25 for "Method for communication between a vehicle diagnostic network and a powertrain controller" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,636, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hondata Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Method for communication between a vehicle diagnostic network and a powertrain controller" was invented by Derek Stevens (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for avoiding conflicts across a vehicle diagnostics bus by incorporating a bridge device between the vehicle's data link connector and one or more sensors. The bridge device is capable of monitoring traffic across the vehicle's diagnostics bus, and conditions and transmits a sensor signal across the bus when said monitoring indicates that the transmission will not inter...