Canis Automotive Labs was founded in 2016 to provide innovative security technology to the automotive industry. It developed the CAN-HG protocol as an extension to CAN and also the Mercury chip, the first product to implement CAN-HG. Canis was started by industry veterans Antal Rajnák (CEO) and Dr. Ken Tindell (CTO) who have a track record in successful automotive startups, including Volcano Communications Technologies (sold to Mentor Graphics) and LiveDevices (sold to Bosch). They also have a track record in successful automotive technology: Antal is the instigator of the LIN protocol used in all cars in production today and Ken originated CAN bus timing analysis and the design of the priority transmit buffer scheme used in most CAN controllers. Together they received the 1999 Volvo Technology Award for Multiplex For Volvo Car Corporation. Canis operates R&D centres in the UK near Cambridge and in Switzerland near Zurich. It is registered in the UK with company number 10316208.