ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,458, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for ascertaining a type of a computing device of an apparatus" was invented by Thomas Heimberger (Hardthausen, Germany), Fabian Wunderlich (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) and Martin Marquart (Reichenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ascertaining a type of a computing device of an apparatus of a motor vehicle. The computing device is designed to at least partially control at least one function of the apparatus. Access to at least one register of a memory device of the apparatus takes place. A type of the computing dev...