ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,020, issued on May 26, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Vehicle power architecture, power control module and associated method" was invented by Pekka Herzogenrath (Wuppertal, Germany), Daniel Staudt (Bochum, Germany), Lukas Puellen (Wuppertal, Germany) and Tobias Merten (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle power architecture including a plurality of functional blocks for implementing functions, a power supply input for receiving a direct current power supply, and an electric control unit, ECU. The ECU includes a control block for controlling the plurality of functional blocks t...