US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Aug. 18 for "Method for operating an at least partially automated vehicle in a manual driving mode, computer program product and system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,306, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for operating an at least partially automated vehicle in a manual driving mode, computer program product and system" was invented by Timo Dobberphul (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a vehicle having at least one functional unit for performing a driving function, wherein the functional unit is controllable by a control unit of the vehicle to execute the driving function in an automated driving mode. The method includes carrying out an initialization process to activate a manual driving mode for externally con...