ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,104, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method, device, computer program and computer-readable storage medium for controlling the provision of suggestion information to a vehicle occupant of a vehicle" was invented by Sebastian Kaluza (Munich) and Fabian Beste (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls providing suggestion information to an occupant of a vehicle relating to the performance of a vehicle function for operating the vehicle. The method includes providing a function unit with first input data representative of information relating to the vehicle occupant, the vehicle an...