ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,673, issued on July 21, was assigned to CARIAD SE (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a control system, and control system" was invented by Helge Zinner (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for operating a control system of a vehicle that includes at least two controllers, wherein, for data transfer, the controllers are at least temporarily communicatively linked via a network, wherein the data transfer in the network takes place according to a round-robin method, so that all controllers are assigned temporally consecutive transmission slots for data transfer and wherein at lea...