US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 30 for "Monitoring a time schedule of a first thread running on a control unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,196, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Monitoring a time schedule of a first thread running on a control unit" was invented by Mohamed-Saad Abdelhameed (Dachau, Germany) and Manjeet Singh Bilra (Hoerlkofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for monitoring a time schedule of a first thread running on a control unit of an automated vehicle. The method includes a step of providing, to a second thread, a first timestamp corresponding to a starting time of the first thread, and a step of providing, to the second thread, a second timestamp corresponding to an end time of t...