ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,138, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Digital twin for an electronic control module" was invented by Marten H. Dane (Columbus, Ind.) and Todd A. Sheridan (Fortville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and apparatuses include a vehicle system actuator, a sensor array associated with the vehicle system actuator, a vehicle controller, and a remote processing circuit. The vehicle controller is structured to receive sensor information from the sensor array, determine local control parameters based on the sensor information using a control scheme, provide local actuation information to actuators b...