US Patent Issued to AUDI on July 8 for "Traffic situation-dependent control of a virtual reality device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,202, issued on July 8, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Traffic situation-dependent control of a virtual reality device" was invented by Christoph Weigand (Gaimersheim, Germany) and Stefan Mayer (Gaimersheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a VR device, in particular VR goggles, of a user in a vehicle interior of a vehicle via a communication link, includes vehicle data being received and evaluated, or receiving evaluated vehicle data via the communication link. At least one traffic event may be classified based on the evaluated vehicle data, to generate control commands for controlling th...