ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,148, issued on June 16, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Identifying manipulation of a sensor unit" was invented by Achim Reuther (Donaustauf, Germany) and Ludwig Schifferl (Pentling, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various teachings of the present disclosure include a method for identifying manipulation of a sensor unit including a measuring unit to measure a physical property and a control unit to receive measurement signals from the measuring unit and to send control signals to the measuring unit. The method may include: sending a diagnostic signal to the measuring unit from the control unit...