US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on Jan. 27 for "Method and emergency stopping device for performing a safe emergency stopping maneuver of a moving vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,070, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method and emergency stopping device for performing a safe emergency stopping maneuver of a moving vehicle" was invented by Daniel Munning (Braunschweig, Germany) and Lukas Ackert (Frellstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a safe emergency stopping maneuver is provided. The method comprises: detecting driver status data; initializing an emergency stop assistance system, wherein the emergency stop assistance system determines a stopping position for the emergency stop of the vehicle and at least one planned emergency stopping ...