ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,928, issued on July 21, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method and system for the operation of at least one component of a motor vehicle" was invented by Caroline Beilner (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Michael Grabowski (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to establishing bidirectional communication between a brain wave processing device and a vehicle to control at least one vehicle component of the vehicle. For this purpose, a brain-computer communication channel is provided between the brain wave processing device and the respective vehicle component. Subsequently, a control ...