ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,183, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for operating an automated vehicle" was invented by Marlon Ramon Ewert (Untergruppenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for operating an automated vehicle. The method includes: acquiring environmental data values which represent objects in an environment of the automated vehicle; determining a position of the automated vehicle; comparing the environmental data values with a digital map, depending on the position of the automated vehicle, the digital map including environmental features, a first subset ...