US Patent Issued to Cariad on July 14 for "Method for checking the fitness of a driver to drive a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,385, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cariad SE (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for checking the fitness of a driver to drive a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" was invented by David Alexander Badouin (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for checking the fitness of a driver to drive a motor vehicle (10) and to a motor vehicle (10) for carrying out a method of this kind. The method comprises the following steps: identifying (S1) a transition signal (38) from a highly automated driving mode to a less automated driving mode; receiving (S2) a request signal (40) and outputting (S3) a requ...