US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Dec. 16 for "System and method for controlling a stop function or a door opening function of a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,806, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"System and method for controlling a stop function or a door opening function of a vehicle" was invented by Armin Wagner (Karlsfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system controls a stop function or a door opening function of a vehicle. The system includes an actuating element which is designed to generate an actuation signal depending on an actuation by a vehicle occupant, and a control device which is designed to receive the actuation signal and, in response to receiving the actuation signal and depending on a travel velocity of the vehicle, to ...