ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,104, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating a motor vehicle and corresponding motor vehicle" was invented by Krister Petersen (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle has a drive device and multiple X-by-wire control devices. A central computer of the motor vehicle determines an overall status from status messages transmitted by the control devices and controls the drive device and/or the control devices on the basis of the overall status."

The patent was filed on Feb. 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/855,395.

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