ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,395, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Vehicle network for data communication between components of a vehicle" was invented by Julian Van Thiel (Grossburgwedel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle network for data communication between components of a vehicle, where the vehicle network includes: a first data bus; and at least two first switching devices, each switching device having: a first data-bus data interface for connection to the first data bus; a first component data interface for connection to one of the components of the vehicle; a connection state, in which the ...