ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,005, issued on April 14, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Driver assistance module for a motor vehicle" was invented by Emmanuel Pasquet (Toulouse, France), Mohamed Cheikh (Toulouse, France) and Sebastien Kessler (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit for a vehicle. The electronic control unit including a memory region in which is stored a lookup table indicating, depending on a type of alert and on the distance between the vehicle and a traffic event relating to the alert, the need to send a response message to the alert signal. The electronic contro...