US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN, MAN TRUCK & BUS on Jan. 27 for "Method and communication system for supporting at least partially automatic vehicle control" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,335, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany) and MAN TRUCK & BUS SE (Munich).

"Method and communication system for supporting at least partially automatic vehicle control" was invented by Bernd Rech (Bokensdorf, Germany), Constanze Hungar (Braunschweig, Germany), Daniel Wilbers (Wolfsburg, Germany), Niklas Koch (Wolfsburg, Germany), Stefan Jurgens (Braunschweig, Germany) and Christian Merfels (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing an information signal (8) for at least partially automatic vehicle control involves an environment sensor system (3) of a motor vehicle (1...