ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,888, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH (Karlsbad, Germany).

"Chip architecture" was invented by Peter Amthor (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip architecture for a metaverse incorporated automobile system, comprising: an input module to provide other modules in the chip architecture with one or more inputs; an output module to output data received from other modules in the chip architecture to various actuators; an object module to manage data and structures relating to objects in the metaverse incorporated automobile system, in particular currency, payments, history, or any other it...