US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 30 for "System and method for operating a vehicle function" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,244, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"System and method for operating a vehicle function" was invented by Sascha Groetzki (Augsburg, Germany), Fabian Herbst (Munich), Lucien Stemmelen (Vierkirchen, Germany) and Regina Wielsch (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for operating a vehicle function of a motor vehicle includes a sensor module. The sensor module is configured to detect, at a plurality of times during an idle state of the motor vehicle, a rain condition and a brightness at the location of the motor vehicle via a sensor system. The sensor module is also configured to store ...