ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,252, issued on May 27, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electrical system and method and apparatus for determining a value profile of a controlled variable" was invented by Michele Hirsch (Esslingen, Germany), Christian Hahn (Nuremberg, Germany) and Markus Becker (Tamm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining a value profile of a controlled variable of an electrical system. Differences between predetermined values of an output variable at an end time and a determined value of the output variable at the end time are determined. A value profile of the controlled v...