US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 8 for "Method and controller for protection from unauthorized installation of a pyrotechnic component" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,120, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and controller for protection from unauthorized installation of a pyrotechnic component" was invented by Wolfgang Nehls (Unterschleissheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for triggering a pyrotechnic component of a vehicle is designed to determine and store a trigger status of the pyrotechnic component. The trigger status exhibits a triggered state or a non-triggered state. The controller is further designed, if the trigger status exhibits the non-triggered state, to allow operation of the controller with a pyrotechnic component i...