ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,886, issued on May 13, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" was invented by Philipp Kretschmann (Manching, Germany), Johannes Reschke (Langquaid, Germany), Markus Birkner (Regensburg, Germany) and Georg Maier (Kinding-Haunstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle is configured to execute a driving maneuver that can be executed without a driver, wherein, before the driving maneuver is executed by a computing device of the motor vehicle, a check is made to determine that at least one admissibility ...