ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,259, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to dSPACE GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Configuration of an SIL simulation of a control unit running on a computer" was invented by Tobias Sielhorst (Paderborn, Germany) and Artur Wolf (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for configuring an SIL simulation of a control unit running on a computer, software modules for the control unit, which have a plurality of tasks, being installed on the computer for the SIL simulation of the control unit, the tasks being processed in a predetermined clock cycle having a periodic period between the individual clock time points, an...