ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,183, issued on April 21, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method and device for monitoring and controlling a vehicle engine" was invented by Xavier Guillaume (Toulouse, France) and Jean-Luc Boyer (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for monitoring a vehicle engine comprising an electronic engine control unit, comprising a multicore computer (C), a first module (L1), a second module (L2), and a third module (L3) that is designed to implement a safety procedure command at the request of the second module or if a failure of the first module is detected, the ...