US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. on Aug. 25 for "Methods and devices for automatic cooperative maneuvers" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,694, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich) and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. (Munich).

"Methods and devices for automatic cooperative maneuvers" was invented by Bernhard Haefner (Munich), Josef Jiru (Munich) and Henning Schepker (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calculating a cooperative maneuver for at least two machines. The method includes the steps of: obtaining environmental information pertaining to a common environment of the at least two machines; generating a plurality of cooperative maneuvers, each comprising at least one maneuver fo...