US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 7 for "Vehicle guidance system and method for controlling an emergency stop assistance function of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,643, issued on July 7, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Vehicle guidance system and method for controlling an emergency stop assistance function of a motor vehicle" was invented by Walter Kagerer (Munich), Sabine Amler (Munich) and Sirin Toprak Guerses (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle guidance system for a motor vehicle is configured to determine a complexity indicator in relation to the complexity of a driving situation of the motor vehicle and to determine one or more trigger conditions as a function of the complexity indicator. The vehicle guidance system is further configured to cause an autom...