US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on Sept. 8 for "Driver assistance system and method for performing an at least partially automatic vehicle function depending on a travel route to be assessed" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,892, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Driver assistance system and method for performing an at least partially automatic vehicle function depending on a travel route to be assessed" was invented by Maximilian Templer (Tiddische, Germany) and Jonas Kaste (Alfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing an at least partially automatic vehicle function of a vehicle depending on a travel route to be assessed by means of a driver assistance system is disclosed. The method comprises providing a plurality of clusters from route data with respect to at least one known travel route...