ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,453, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Network having software entities for actuating controllers" was invented by Yiran Hu (Shelby Township, Mich.), Frank Ghenassia (Ramat Gan, Israel), Scott A. Rush (White Lake Township, Mich.), Cheryl A. Williams (Howell, Mich.), Abdelhalim Ragab (Canton, Mich.), Sherif Aly (West Bloomfield, Mich.), David M. Frazier (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Jorge R. Flores (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network for actuating a plurality of controllers to perform a selected functions includes a plurality of programmable chips communicatively cou...