ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,871, issued on March 17, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" was invented by Hendrik Gronau (Ingolstadt, Germany), Jorg Michael (Ingolstadt, Germany), Christoph Schmutz (GroBmehring-Demling, Germany), Thorsten Schrader (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Werner Wilding (Gungolding, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a motor vehicle, wherein input data concerning the motor vehicle and/or surroundings and/or a user of the motor vehicle are ascertained, wherein at least one trigger condition dependent on the input data is evaluated, wherein, in the ev...