ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,102, issued on May 19, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich) and TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN (Munich).

"Vehicle, method and control device for activating a vehicle function of a vehicle" was invented by Christian Froede (Munich), Anton Renner (Munich), Peter Forstner (Abensberg, Germany), Joachim Froeschl (Herrsching, Germany) and Laurenz Tippe (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of activating a vehicle function of a vehicle. The vehicle comprises a plurality of energy paths and a plurality of energy consumers, with each energy path of the plurality of energy p...