US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 16 for "Monitoring controller area network bus for vehicle control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,055, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Monitoring controller area network bus for vehicle control" was invented by Robert Richard Noel Bielby (Placerville, Calif.) and Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus of vehicle control. For example, a vehicle includes: a multi-master serial bus (e.g., a controller area network (CAN) bus); electronic control units connected to the bus and configured to communicate with each other through the bus; a transceiver connected to the bus and configured to monitor communication traffic on the bus to generate inp...