US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Americas on Nov. 18 for "Direct encapsulation of sensor data over ethernet" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,842, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Direct encapsulation of sensor data over ethernet" was invented by Amir Bar-Niv (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dance Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor bridge, for use in an Ethernet network in a vehicle, includes a sensor interface, a mapper and a communication processor. The sensor interface is configured to receive sensor data from a sensor installed in the vehicle. The mapper is configured to form mapped sensor data by applying to the sensor data a direct mapping that maps specified parts of the sensor data to c...