US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Dec. 30 for "Method for operating a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,096, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for operating a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" was invented by Esther Alberts (Munich), Irmengard Ditzell (Freising, Germany), Marcel Ewers (Dachau, Germany), Simone Fuchs (Munich), Harald Hofmeier (Eching, Germany), Stefan Holder (Munich) and Tobias Straub (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a motor vehicle. A map of corresponding event locations for one or more high load events is provided, wherein the one or more high load events have historically led to an above-average load on a vehicle component. A current position...