ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,039, issued on June 9, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for processing input variables" was invented by Taha Soliman (Renningen, Germany) and Tobias Kirchner (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing input variables, comprising: application of a first input variable to a control electrode of a first transistor; application of a second input variable to a current leakage device, wherein the current leakage device is designed to connect a load path of the first transistor selectively to a first circuit node or a second circuit node based on the second input ...