US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 6 for "Communication relay device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,650, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Communication relay device" was invented by Kazuya Sugiyama (Nisshin, Japan), Hiroya Andou (Toyota, Japan), Daisuke Takaishi (Anjo, Japan) and Shingo Tomida (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication relay device relays transmission and reception of data between a plurality of control devices on an in-vehicle network. The communication relay device determines that communication is abnormal when an index value indicating a traffic volume per unit time of the data being relayed is greater than a specified value. The communication relay device...