ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,465, issued on March 24, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for redundant monitoring of driving functions" was invented by Stefan Engels (Ostfildern, Germany) and Zhiyi Xu (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for redundant monitoring of driving functions of an automatedly driving motor vehicle, with a first control system. The first control system includes a first control unit, a first actual-value sensor and a first controller. Based on ascertained actual values of the first actual-value sensor and control specification values, the first control unit controls the first controller w...