ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,883, issued on April 15, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Device and method for connecting a service-oriented device to a signal-based device" was invented by Felix Henschel (Unna, Germany) and Niklas May-Johann (Lippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for service-oriented communication with a signal-based hardware architecture. The device comprises a number of service-oriented communication interfaces for communicative connection to a number of external service-oriented communication partners, a number of signal-based communication interfaces for communication with a number of external s...