US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 7 for "In-vehicle network system and electronic control unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,121, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"In-vehicle network system and electronic control unit" was invented by Yoshihide Nakamura (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The in-vehicle network system includes a first device, a second device, and a third device as electronic control units having a network management function. The first device transmits the periodic message. The second device performs a failure determination to determine that the first device has failed when the reception of the periodic message from the first device is interrupted. The third device has a partial network func...