ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,420, issued on March 11, was assigned to dSPACE GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Computer system for controlling peripheral devices" was invented by Noel Nottbeck (Paderborn, Germany), Henry Bathke (Paderborn, Germany) and Gregor Sievers (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer system and method having at least one peripheral device, a control module for controlling the peripheral device, and a connection module, which is connected to the control module via a first data link. The connection module has I/O data ports for exchanging pieces of information with the peripheral device, and the peri...