ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,041, issued on May 12, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for outputting a signal as a function of a transmission path to be selected on the basis of prediction" was invented by Jens Schwardmann (Hildesheim, Germany), Khaled Shawky Hassan (Sarstedt, Germany), Marie-Theres Suer (Braunschweig, Germany), Philip Wette (Bueckeburg, Germany) and Sascha Guebner (Bodenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for outputting a signal as a function of a transmission path to be selected, to transmit a data packet from a transmitter unit to a receiver unit connectable to the transmitter unit via at least t...