ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,131, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and system for quantifying vehicle requirement" was invented by Venkat Dheeraj Dhavaleswarapu (Wuppertal, Germany) and David Fernandez (Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for quantifying vehicle requirements includes providing a requirement quantification tool comprising a simulator, a memory storing information characterizing a first traffic use case on a first abstraction level and a generation function to generate a condition value for the vehicle requirement from an observed parameter extracted from resu...