ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,038, issued on May 13, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Device for operating an electronic system of a vehicle" was invented by Andreas Wunderlich (Wenzenbach, Germany), Alfons Fisch (Falkenstein, Germany) and Aurore Desgeorge (Tournefeuille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a device for operating an electronic system. The device includes a power supply unit that, during operation, provides a supply voltage on a supply potential output. The power supply unit has an enable input via which the supply voltage can be enabled and disabled by an enable signal. In a power-latch p...