ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,785, issued on March 17, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for representing surroundings of a vehicle" was invented by Sebastien Ambrosetti (Waidhofen, Germany), Sabrina Roters (Gaimersheim, Germany), Lydia Schindhelm (Ingolstadt, Germany), Rebekka Neumann (Gaimersheim-Lippertshofen, Germany), Tobias Hopf (Landshut, Germany), Timo Schaschek (Ingolstadt, Germany), Benjamin Berndt (Nuremberg, Germany) and Alexander Khlebnikov (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is described for representing surroundings of a vehicle, the vehicle being in a specific driving situation, on at least one display ...