ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,754, issued on April 29, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for performing a data transmission using ethernet as a physical layer with a non-ethernet serial protocol" was invented by Andreas Enns (Kirchheim Am Neckar, Germany) and Florian Schrittwieser (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a data transmission between a control device and an electronics unit. A microcontroller and an Ethernet transceiver are provided in the control unit, and a microcontroller and an Ethernet transceiver are also provided in the electronics unit. For data transmission, the two Ethernet tr...