ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,269, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for obtaining information on the status of a motor vehicle during a production process of the motor vehicle, and monitoring system" was invented by Christian Luttenberg (Hattingen, Germany), Lars Hanjurgens (Wallstawe OT Gieseritz, Germany), Thorsten Stroher (Bischoffen, Germany), Nils Karig (Meine, Germany), Christian Burghoff (Braunschweig, Germany), Jorg Elsner (Bottrop, Germany), Marcel Kramer (Wasbuttel, Germany), Andreas Benz (Hildesheim, Germany), Konrad Brisse (Hattingen, Germany) and Martin Papproth (Haltern am See, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademar...