ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,948, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Vehicle, infrastructure component, apparatus, computer program, and method for a vehicle" was invented by Ahmad El Assaad (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportation vehicle, an infrastructure component, an apparatus, a computer program, and a method for a transportation vehicle to be remotely operated by a remote driver in a remote driving mode and to be operated at least partially automatically in an automated driving mode. The method includes determining driving preferences of a remote driver from the driving behavior of the remote driver, pred...