ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,052, issued on April 22, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for processing data associated with a signal" was invented by Marcel Kneib (Ingelheim, Germany) and Oleg Schell (Krautheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for processing data which are associated for example with a signal transmittable and/or transmitted via a bus system, for example of a vehicle, including: at least intermittent provision of reference data for a statistical model which characterizes at least one average of at least one characteristic of the signal on the basis of a first average de...