ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,428, issued on March 24, was assigned to VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE (Creteil, France).

"Running a telematics service via a TCU" was invented by Matthias Wellens (Creteil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for running a telematics service via a Telematic Control Unit (TCU) of a vehicle is disclosed. The method includes measuring one or more temperatures at the TCU, Comparing the measured temperatures with one or more thresholds, and determining whether or not to run the telematics service depending on a result of the comparison between the measured and threshold temperatures as well as a delay-sensitivity of th...