ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,748, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Driver assistance system and method for automatic maneuvering with repetition of a manually driven route taking into account a deviating desired target position and/or desired target orientation" was invented by Sonja de Castro Bonfim (Munich), Joachim Fleig (Munich) and Elisabeth Orthuber (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance system for the automatic maneuvering of a motor vehicle is designed to determine a driving trajectory in a recording process based on a route which is manually driven by the driver with the motor vehicle, and on ...