ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,774, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).

"Can communication controller and method of operating can communication controller" was invented by Christian Mardmoller (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Tobias Belitz (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CAN communication controller and a method of operating a CAN communication controller are disclosed. The CAN communication controller is for transmitting first and second types of frames wherein the first type of frame is used to transmit event-triggered communication data and the second type of frame is used to transmit best effort traffic data, th...