US Patent Issued to DANA BELGIUM on April 15 for "System and method for real-time hardware in the loop" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,044, issued on April 15, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).

"System and method for real-time hardware in the loop" was invented by Tony Libbrecht (Waregem, Belgium), Sam De Cock (Bruges, Belgium) and Christophe De Buyser (Veldegem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for building and operating a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) system are described. In one example, executable instructions to model a controller, operate a controller area network (CAN) bus, and process analog signals are separated from executable instructions that simulate or model a physical system. The executable instructions are sep...