ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,291, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"System and method for customizing a vehicle function" was invented by John Newman (Ingolstadt, Germany), Stefan Herrler (Eichstatt, Germany) and Felix Wittmann (Ingolstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The approach relates to a method and system for customizing a vehicle function. The system includes a developer platform configured to create content for a predefined vehicle function and transmit the created content to a content server. The developer platform includes a validation program configured to determine if the created content violates an opera...