US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Extendable vehicle electronics system, extension module, and associated methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,000, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Extendable vehicle electronics system, extension module, and associated methods" was invented by Markus Neumann (Nuremberg, Germany) and Tim Welsch (Neustadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Extendable vehicle electronics system including a base unit having base electronic components for implementing base electronic functions. An extension module includes a module data transceiver and extension electronic components operable in combination with the base electronic components for implementing extended electronic functions. A base data tran...