ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,144, issued on July 14, was assigned to dSPACE GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for simulating an electrical circuit" was invented by Axel Kiffe (Paderborn, Germany) and Katrin Witting (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for simulating an electrical circuit via at least one computing unit, the electrical circuit comprising circuit components with switch elements, wherein the switch elements are capable of assuming either a conductive or a blocking switched state, wherein the circuit is described by a mathematical representation MR and the circuit for each total switc...