US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 2 for "Method for operating an assistance system of an at least temporarily autonomously operable vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,576, issued on June 2, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for operating an assistance system of an at least temporarily autonomously operable vehicle" was invented by Sebastian Hergeth (Munich) and Frederik Naujoks (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistance system influences an asleep and/or awake state of a vehicle occupant to at least temporarily take over a vehicle guidance function by detecting the asleep and/or awake state of the vehicle occupant using a detection device to generate takeover capability information, detecting, receiving, and/or generating destination arrival information, at lea...