ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,894, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for coordinating a vehicle in a depot, and function control device and vehicle" was invented by Janik Ricke (Uetze, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coordinating a vehicle in a depot divided into multiple function regions, the vehicle being driven in the depot through at least some of the function regions into a defined destination region, includes receiving a travel profile. The travel profile has at least one function rule, each function rule of the at least one function rule being assigned to a function region in the d...