US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 31 for "Method and system for assisting a driver of a vehicle in maintaining a lane" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,744, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and system for assisting a driver of a vehicle in maintaining a lane" was invented by Dominik Fuess (Munich), Stephan Niermann (Hebertshausen, Germany) and Sebastian Zinser (Neufahrn bei Freising, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting a driver of a vehicle in maintaining a lane includes: detecting driving state measurement signals of a vehicle; ascertaining a driving trajectory of the vehicle based on the detected driving state measurement signals; detecting surroundings information signals of the vehicle; ascertaining a la...