ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,043, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and method for performing a network diagnosis procedure" was invented by Martin Wagner (Norderstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to perform a network diagnosis procedure within a message-based protocol network comprising a plurality of nodes. The apparatus comprises: a diagnosis test device configured to perform diagnosis tests; and a diagnosis control device. To perform the network diagnosis procedure, the diagnosis control device is configured to: receive a diagnosis request from a commander node wherein the diag...