US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on July 14 for "Method for automated vehicle longitudinal control and an accordingly configured assistance system and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,398, issued on July 14, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for automated vehicle longitudinal control and an accordingly configured assistance system and motor vehicle" was invented by Alexander Kunze (Braunschweig, Germany), Johanna Sandbrink (Braunschweig, Germany), Yannis Tebaibi (Braunschweig, Germany) and Vitalij Sadovitch (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for automatic longitudinal control of a motor vehicle and to a corresponding assistance system and a motor vehicle equipped therewith or, alternatively, configured accordingly. In the method, withi...