ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,817, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating a management program" was invented by Andreas Heyl (Weil der Stadt, Germany) and Markus Schweizer (Vaihingen/Enz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a management program that is provided to manage at least one intervention from at least one application program in a motor vehicle into at least one component of the motor vehicle. When establishing the extent of the at least one intervention, information being made available from outside of the vehicle is taken into account."

The patent was filed on Nov. 3,...