ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,322, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle communication system" was invented by Masaaki Harada (Tokyo), Daisuke Ito (Tokyo) and Toru Nameki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle communication system includes a gateway device. The gateway device is configured to receive electric power from a battery of a vehicle, relay communication among multiple communication lines coupled to respective electronic control units, perform, when receiving a signal through any of the communication lines, a sleep wake-up operation by transmitting a wake-up request signal to switch one or more of the electronic contr...