US Patent Issued to AUDI, TITECH AUTO on July 15 for "Method for monitoring a data network in a motor vehicle, and switch device, and motor vehicle" (Romanian, Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,149, issued on July 15, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) and TITECH AUTO AG (Vienna).

"Method for monitoring a data network in a motor vehicle, and switch device, and motor vehicle" was invented by Karsten Schmidt (Ingolstadt, Germany), Bernhard Stangl (Vienna), Costel Patrascu (Bukarest, Romania) and Alexandru Stireciu (Bukarest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a data network in a motor vehicle is provided, wherein a switch device is operated in the data network, in which physical ports for receiving and for transmitting data packets are interconnected via a switch circuit. A network proce...