ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,117, issued on July 7, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating a control unit and a determination unit of a lightweight vehicle" was invented by Khaled Shawky Hassan (Laatzen, Germany), Nadia Brahmi (Hildesheim, Germany), Frank Hofmann (Hildesheim, Germany), Andre Schwarzmeier (Reutlingen, Germany) and Andreas Schaller (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a determination unit (DUb) of a personal mobile terminal or a device with a user interface (UIb). In one example, the method includes receiving, via at least one communication channel (CHb) between the determ...