ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,906, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for determining a predictive ego speed of a vehicle traveling along a predetermined route, control device for a vehicle or for a navigation device or for a mobile user terminal, navigation unit, and vehicle" was invented by Johannes Ziegmann (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a predictive ego speed of a vehicle traveling along a predetermined route for at least one location or at least one section of the route, by at least determining an average speed currently traveled by road users...