ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,325, issued on June 23, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for determining a difference value between two movements" was invented by Stefan Kuntz (Flein, Germany), Michael Kleinknecht (Lehrensteinsfeld, Germany) and Sina Fella (Neuenstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a difference value includes multiplying one measurement signal, representing a current mechanical movement acquired at a first periodicity, with a second periodicity of another measurement signal, which represents another current mechanical movement, based on an integer algorithm, and using a pot...