ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,287, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Local generation of commands to a vehicle sensor" was invented by Dance Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Amir Bar-Niv (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling an imaging sensor in a vehicle includes an Ethernet transceiver, a sensor interface and a local processor. The Ethernet transceiver is configured to communicate over an in-vehicle Ethernet network with a remote processor. The sensor interface is configured to communicate with the imaging sensor. The local processor that is local to the apparatus an...