ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,383, issued on April 14, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Device and method for generating and transmitting control commands for an autonomously driving motor vehicle" was invented by Eugen Schneider (Wolfsburg, Germany), Hartmut Voge (Rotgesbuttel, Germany) and Timo Dobberphul (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for generating and transmitting control commands for an autonomously driving motor vehicle. A device receives at least surroundings data and vehicle status data, calculates a trajectory on the basis of said data, calculates the control commands required for t...