ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,451, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Dynamic current sense adjustment for ring-like power distribution" was invented by Thorsten Rosenthal (Mulheim, Germany), Andreas Fuchs (Cologne, Germany) and Emmanuel Boudoux (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to Electronic Control Units (ECUs) for use in ring-like power distribution architectures as well as to ring-like power distribution architectures comprising such ECUs. It also relates to vehicles comprising such ring-like power distribution architectures. In an aspect, an ECU comprises a first E...