ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,252, issued on June 30, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Error-tolerant data processing system" was invented by Heiko Freienstein (Weil der Stadt, Germany) and Joerg Moennich (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An error-tolerant data processing system for generating safe behavior of an automatically operable vehicle. The data processing system includes at least two hardware modules which are used in a redundant operating mode to generate results for a specified task independently of one another. At least one complementary operating mode is provided, in which the at least two hardware modules are...