ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,657, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Autonomous method to prevent brownout of subsea electronic modules" was invented by Amadeu Placido Neto (Aschaffenburg, Germany), Alexandre Orth (Hettstadt, Germany) and Stein Berg Nilsen (Ski, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for controlling a subsea system including at least one slave subsea electronic module installed in a subsea device, to prevent brownout of the subsea system. The system includes a master subsea electronic module, configured to provide power to the at least one slave subsea electronic module. The subsea device is co...