ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,447, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Location of neighbouring V2X-capable vehicles" was invented by Thorsten Hehn (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Julia Rainer (Ingolstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of locating a second V2X-capable vehicle by a first V2X-capable vehicle is described. A request is transmitted from the first vehicle to the second vehicle via a V2X communication connection, sensor data from at least one sensor of the second vehicle are received by the first vehicle via the V2X communication connection and are evaluated. At least one action is carried out by the first vehic...