ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,445, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Communication control device and transmit/receive device for a subscriber station of a serial bus system and method for communication in a serial bus system" was invented by Steffen Walker (Reutlingen, Germany), Arthur Mutter (Neuhausen, Germany) and Florian Hartwich (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control device. The communication control device has a communication control module for generating a transmit signal for controlling communication of the subscriber station with other subscriber station(s) of the bus system...