ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,460, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Controlling a motor vehicle at partial field-of-view concealment" was invented by Christian Reimker (Braunschweig, Germany), Christian Reinl (Pollenfeld, Germany), Anna Rehr (Freising, Germany), Simon Grossjohann (Wolfsburg, Germany), Toni Guenther (Braunschweig, Germany) and Rajko Petelka (Hemkenrode, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatically controlling a motor vehicle may involve generating environment data and the data being taken as a basis for determining a concealed region of a field of view. A reference point on a boundary between t...