ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,458, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Norfolk Southern Corp. (Atlanta).
"Industrial equipment diagnostic system" was invented by Ingrid Crafford (Atlanta), Nhut Doan (Atlanta), Dennis Quinn (Atlanta) and Jeremy Laskos (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for industrial equipment diagnostics are disclosed. Specifically, a bus controller operatively connected to a processor is physically connected to two or more controller area network (CAN) buses, wherein each CAN bus operates according to a different protocol. The bus controller is configured to control the rate at which messages are received on...