US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 24 for "Method for assisting a vehicle user during a lane change maneuver taking into account different areas in the surroundings of the vehicle, and driver assistance system for a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,457, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for assisting a vehicle user during a lane change maneuver taking into account different areas in the surroundings of the vehicle, and driver assistance system for a vehicle" was invented by Sami Fayad (Munich), Stephan Niermann (Hebertshausen, Germany) and Dominik Rieth (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting a vehicle user during a lane change maneuver includes receiving a navigation command for performing the lane change maneuver from a second lane to a first lane of a road; searching for gaps for the vehicle in the first ...