ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,221, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Bus station, bus system, and method for transmitting data in a two-wire bus system" was invented by Norman Schuetze (Reutlingen, Germany), Thomas Walker (Kusterdingen, Germany), Balint Nagy (Vecses, Hungary), Matthias Renner (Weil Der Stadt, Germany), Michael Gerlach (Weil Der Stadt, Germany) and Stephan Voehringer (Lichtenstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bus station, a two-wire bus system, and methods for transmitting data in a two-wire bus system. The method includes: supplying a variable battery voltage to a first bus station and a seco...