US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on May 26 for "Method for assisting a user of a vehicle during an automated lateral guidance of the vehicle on a road with a branch, computing device and driver assistance system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,099, issued on May 26, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for assisting a user of a vehicle during an automated lateral guidance of the vehicle on a road with a branch, computing device and driver assistance system" was invented by Christoph Resch (Obernzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting a user of a vehicle during an automated lateral guidance of the vehicle on a road having multiple lanes includes determining map-based position data describing a current position of the vehicle in relation to the lanes on the basis of satellite-based position data and high-resolution map data...