ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,529, issued on July 28, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).
"Method for ascertaining the control unit temperature by means of a time synchronization protocol" was invented by Helge Zinner (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining the control unit temperature in a motor vehicle by means of Ethernet, comprising the steps of: determining a transit time of a first signal on a first connection path between a first server ECU of the Ethernet vehicle electrical system and a second server ECU of the Ethernet vehicle electrical system;...