US Patent Issued to Hella on Sept. 8 for "X-by-wire control system for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,874, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"X-by-wire control system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Hueseyin Demir (Lippstadt, Germany), Olaf Husberg (Warburg, Germany), Christian Iseke (Paderborn, Germany), Sergey Orlov (Paderborn, Germany) and Christoph Wostmann (Lippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-by-wire control system of a motor vehicle for the control of a main function of the motor vehicle and a secondary function of the motor vehicle which is rated lower by the safety standard to be met in comparison with the main function. The main function can be carried out ...