ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,216, issued on April 21, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device for infrastructure-supported assistance of a motor vehicle" was invented by Michael Gabb (Gaeufelden, Germany) and Stefan Nordbruch (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for infrastructure-supported assistance of a motor vehicle. The device includes: a communication device that is configured to receive surroundings signals that represent the surroundings of the motor vehicle; a processor device that is configured to ascertain, based on the surroundings signals, infrastructure assistance data for infrastructure-supported assi...