US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on March 17 for "Method for automatically controlling a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,737, issued on March 17, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Method for automatically controlling a vehicle" was invented by Ulrich Stahlin (Eschborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically controlling a vehicle based on a driving specification received from an external infrastructure. In a normal mode the vehicle is controlled along a trajectory specified thereby and in a test mode the vehicle is controlled along a test trajectory that deviates from the trajectory specified by the driving specification, and/or is controlled using test parameters. This al...