ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,243, issued on March 25, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating a microcontroller" was invented by Georg Kuehberger (Michelhausen, Austria), Bernhard Plametzberger (Vienna), Dirk Lentz (Stuttgart, Germany), Matthias Knauss (Schorndorf, Germany), Matthias Schreiber (Vaihngen/Enz, Germany) and Philipp Stark (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a microcontroller. The microcontroller includes a plurality of resources, a plurality of virtual machines being executed in the microcontroller, a coordination unit being superordinate to the plurality of virtual machine...