ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,171, issued on June 3, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Wake-up process for electrical networks in a vehicle having an electrical drive train" was invented by Guenter Gschwantner (Wagram/Wagram, Austria) and Martin Trunk (Neuenstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for activating a control unit in a second electrical network, starting from a first electrical network in a vehicle having an electrified drive train, the first electrical network being galvanically isolated from the second electrical network, the device comprising: a signal generating module for generating a ...