US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on July 14 for "Hierarchical system architecture for controlling an automated vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,295, issued on July 14, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Hierarchical system architecture for controlling an automated vehicle" was invented by Heiko Freienstein (Weil Der Stadt, Germany), Johannes Christian Mueller (Stuttgart, Germany), Maxim Dolgov (Renningen, Germany) and Ralf Kohlhaas (Calw, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hierarchical system architecture for controlling an automated vehicle. The hierarchical system architecture includes: a performance layer; a safety layer; a hardware layer, wherein the safety layer is arranged between the performance layer and the hardware layer; the performance...