ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,270, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Control system for a motor vehicle for coordinating and carrying out customer functions" was invented by Marc Blumentritt (Braunschweig, Germany) and Janina Cetera (Parsau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a motor vehicle for coordinating and carrying out customer vehicle functions and to a method for operating such a control system. The control system may include a central vehicle regulator for actuating vehicle functions and multiple customer vehicle functions which are designed to transmit activation request relating to the vehi...