ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,438, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Methods, apparatus, and system" was invented by Andre Schwarzmeier (Reutlingen, Germany), Andreas Schaller (Reutlingen, Germany), Frank Hofmann (Hildesheim, Germany), Khaled Shawky Hassan (Laatzen, Germany) and Nadia Brahmi (Hildesheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable electronic device (UEa) that includes determining means to determine a coupling state that indicates a coupling or non-coupling of the portable electronic device with a vehicle-side control unit of a lightweight vehicle; and selecting means to select one of at least a first ...