ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,831, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating a control unit" was invented by Ibrahim Duran (Boeblingen, Germany), Adrian Haug (Leonberg, Germany), Daniel Wettach (Pforzheim, Germany), Dieter Bruss (Aidlingen, Germany), Manuela Niekisch (Gechingen, Germany), Martin Karle (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Philipp Brechel (Stuttgart, Germany), Silke Bruening (Schwieberdingen, Germany), Stefan Kummler (Pleidelsheim, Germany), Thomas Tietjen (Muensigen/Trailfingen, Germany) and Wei Ling (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a computing arrangement...