US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on June 2 for "Method and assistance apparatus for supporting vehicle functions in a parking lot, and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,713, issued on June 2, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method and assistance apparatus for supporting vehicle functions in a parking lot, and motor vehicle" was invented by Stefan Wappler (Sollingen, Germany), Timo Iken (Wolfsburg, Germany), Niklas Koch (Tappenbeck, Germany) and Roland Kube (Schwulper, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method and an assistance apparatus for supporting vehicle functions in a parking lot. Surroundings data are recorded and processed in order to recognize semantic and/or geometric objects, wherein the surroundings data depict the parking lot or repres...