US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 14 for "Method and assistance device for assisting driving operation of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,387, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and assistance device for assisting driving operation of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" was invented by Markus Hofbauer (Munich), Christopher Kuhn (Munich), Goran Petrovic (Munich) and Eckehard Steinbach (Olching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an assistance device assist automated driving operation of a motor vehicle. Surroundings raw data recorded by way of a surroundings sensor system of the motor vehicle are processed by the assistance device in order to generate semantic surroundings data. This is accomplished by carry...