US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Aug. 4 for "Method for checking an automated driving vehicle prior to starting a drive, and automated driving vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,985, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for checking an automated driving vehicle prior to starting a drive, and automated driving vehicle" was invented by Niklas Koch (Tappenbeck, Germany), Jana Seeland (Wolfsburg, Germany) and Christian Hopp (Wolfenbuttel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for verifying the operational readiness of an automated driving vehicle before initiating a drive is disclosed. The method involves performing a predefined set of automated checks each time the vehicle is started. These checks are executed using predefined combinations of ...