ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,545, issued on June 2, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Vehicle control system and method for increasing the attentiveness of a driver when operating a driving function" was invented by Bartono Adiprasito (Tiefenbach, Germany), Helena Dolinaj (Munich), Maximilian Guenther (Munich), Frank Herchet (Neufahrn b. Freising, Germany), Martin Jaensch (Munich), Markus Kraemer (Dachau, Germany), Julius Schulz (Munich) and Muhammed Yildiz (Kirchseeon, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system provides a driving function for automated longitudinal control of a vehicle at a signaling unit, the driving fu...