ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,341, issued on July 28, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for monitoring an energy store in a motor vehicle" was invented by Alexander Uwe Schmid (Budapest, Hungary), Christel Sarfert (Korntal-Muenchingen, Germany), Martin Andreas Lohrmann (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Philipp Schroeer (Althengstett, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring an energy store in a motor vehicle, wherein the energy store supplies at least one, in particular safety-relevant, consumer, preferably for an automated driving function. In the method, at least one characteristic variable of the energy sto...