ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,273, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Controller for a user interface of a motor vehicle, and method for operating a controller for a user interface" was invented by Jurgen Lerzer (Neumarkt, Germany), Hans Georg Gruber (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Jan Meletzky (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit for a user interface of a motor vehicle comprising a system on a chip having a main processor and a flash memory arrangement that can be used by the system on a chip, wherein the system on a chip comprises a hypervisor that implements a first virtual machine and a second virtual mach...