US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 7 for "Apparatus and method for actuating a function of a motor vehicle and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,638, issued on July 7, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for actuating a function of a motor vehicle and motor vehicle" was invented by Christian Buchner (Poing, Germany), Kai Hoesl (Iffeldorf, Germany) and Alexander Maier (Langenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for actuating a function of a motor vehicle. A first transmission/reception device is arranged at a first location of the motor vehicle and is configured to receive a functional signal for actuating a function of the motor vehicle from a functional device different from the motor vehicle. A central transmission...