ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,218, issued on April 8, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Control unit" was invented by Matthias Peters (Obersulm, Germany), Richard Heidemann (Langenbrettbach, Germany) and Roman Walther (Ludwigsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit for a vehicle, having an interface for the exchange of data with a sensor, an actuator, and/or a processing unit, including a data memory, in which a first list with multiple first reference numbers (port) is stored. At least one datum of a sensor or an actuator is allocated to a first reference number, and a second list with second reference numbers is stored...