ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,418, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Method for operating a control device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Johannes Lang (Poxdorf, Germany) and Claudia Tischendorf (Ingolstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a control device for a motor vehicle, and to the motor vehicle. The method comprises the following steps: determining usage data that describes a usage behavior for a respective function that can be provided by a first software provided to the control device; checking, for the respective function, whether the usage is below a ...