ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,441, issued on July 14, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Constrained controlling of a computer-controlled system" was invented by Alessandro Giacomo Bottero (Stuttgart, Germany), Carlos Enrique Luis Goncalves (Stuttgart, Germany), Felix Berkenkamp (Munich), Jan Peters (Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany) and Julia Vinogradska (Gerlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented control method of constrained controlling of a computer-controlled system. The system is controlled according to a control input, which is safe if a constraint quantity resulting from the controlling of the computer-control...