US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 17 for "Method and device for prioritizing route incidents" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,882, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and device for prioritizing route incidents" was invented by Andreas Lechner (Munich) and Sebastien Mathieu (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for analyzing upcoming route incidents on a driving route of a vehicle in the automated longitudinal guidance of the vehicle are provided. A first upcoming route incident at a first incident position is detected on the driving route of the vehicle. A first speed profile of the vehicle is predicted up to the first incident position considering the fir...