ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,057, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Kanagawa-ku, Japan).

"Device and method for computing driving parameters" was invented by Patrice Bertrand (Toulouse, France) and Eric Perraud (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes a first unit and a second unit. In response to receipt of a request corresponding to a computing function, the first unit may: determine an execution context; trigger a first execution of the function on the second unit, this delivering a first comparison parameter, a first temporal execution parameter being...