ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,239, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Electronic control unit with separable cooling and memory modules" was invented by Falk Rademacher (Gummersbach, Germany), Martin Bornemann (Nuremberg, Germany) and Peter Reinhold (Gummersbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit (ECU) with separable cooling and memory modules is described. The cooling module has an integrated liquid-cooling circuit with a direct connection to the cooling circuit. The memory module includes an independent memory that can store data and be tested independent of the cooling module. ...