ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,220, issued on March 3, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Determining a vehicle configuration which is adapted to the driving behavior of a person" was invented by Jens Kastens (Tettnang, Germany), Heidi Rathgeb (Lindenberg, Germany), Alexander Graf (Immenstaad, Germany), Nicolas Blum (Julbach, Germany), Andrea Agostinelli (Munich) and Dominic Schmidt (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a vehicle configuration (24) adapted to driving behavior of a person includes: determining a driving profile (20) of the person, wherein the driving profile (20) includes a speed...