ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,949, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for providing data" was invented by Adrien Serout (Aidlingen, Germany), Chen Jin (Stuttgart, Germany) and Rui Qian (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining data regarding a plurality of functions performed in a vehicle for transmission to a data collection site, in particular for analysis, said method comprising: determining (210), for each of the plurality of functions (201, 202, 203), one or more signals (A, B, C) each at a frequency (222) and having been recorded and/or will be recorded by the respective functi...