US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 8 for "Method and system for operating a vehicle navigation system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,784, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and system for operating a vehicle navigation system" was invented by Georg Schmitt (Munich) and Simon Springmann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a vehicle navigation system, in which vehicles of a vehicle fleet are classified into vehicle groups according to an antenna characteristic with respect to a terrestrial wireless network. The vehicles of the vehicle fleet ascertain at various measurement locations the position of the measurement location and the signal strength and/or the signal quality of the wireless network. The...