ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,288, issued on June 3, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for determining a control signal" was invented by Duc Tam Nguyen (Karlsruhe, Germany), Michael Klar (Bad Friedrichshall, Germany) and Zhongyu Lou (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for classifying an input signal that is ascertained as a function of an output signal of a sensor as to whether or not it has an anomaly, it being decided, as a function of an output signal of an autoencoder (60) to which the input signal is supplied, whether or not the input signal has the anomaly. The autoencoder ...