US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 14 for "Method for assisting a user of a vehicle during an automated transverse guidance of the vehicle on a road having a branch taking into account a preceding vehicle, computing device and driver assistance system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,357, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for assisting a user of a vehicle during an automated transverse guidance of the vehicle on a road having a branch taking into account a preceding vehicle, computing device and driver assistance system" was invented by Christoph Resch (Obernzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting a user of a vehicle during an automated lateral guidance of the vehicle on a road having multiple lanes includes determining map-based position data that describes a present position of the vehicle in relation to the lanes on the basis of satelli...