ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,198, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Data processing network for performing reliable data processing" was invented by Raphael Diziol (Kandel, Germany), Stefan Egenter (Freiburg, Germany) and Michael Poehnl (Wurmberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing network is for performing a plurality of successive data processing steps in a redundant and validated manner. The data processing steps are each used to generate output data from input data. At least some output data from a first data processing step are at the same time input data of a further data processing step. At...