US Patent Issued to Motherson Innovations on June 9 for "Autonomous vehicles and methods of using same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,486, issued on June 9, was assigned to Motherson Innovations Co. Ltd. (London).

"Autonomous vehicles and methods of using same" was invented by Yann Buchet (Gottingen, Germany), Torsten Weingartner (Gottingen, Germany), Jan Dormanns (Gottingen, Germany) and Xavier Dreyer (Boetzingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for receiving user input from an internal vehicle component surface includes a flat surface layer of the internal vehicle component that includes a first portion made of an elastic material and a second portion that surrounds the first portion, and a push-button assembly located beneath the first portion of ...