US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on May 27 for "Method for transmitting a data element between a first control unit of a vehicle and a second control unit of the vehicle, computer-readable medium, system and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,551, issued on May 27, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for transmitting a data element between a first control unit of a vehicle and a second control unit of the vehicle, computer-readable medium, system and vehicle" was invented by Christian Arendt (Munich), Omid Pahlevan Sharif (Bad Homburg, Germany) and Markus Wudy (Oberschleissheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method transmits a data element between control units of a vehicle that are coupled via at least two communication channels. The first control unit determines a communication channel indicator of a first channel that is representat...