US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Dec. 30 for "Vehicle control system and method for operating a driving function according to a preceding vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,084, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Vehicle control system and method for operating a driving function according to a preceding vehicle" was invented by Bartono Adiprasito (Tiefenbach, Germany), Helena Dolinaj (Munich), Maximilian Guenther (Munich), Frank Herchet (Neufahrn b. Freising, Germany), Martin Jaensch (Munich), Markus Kraemer (Dachau, Germany), Julius Schulz (Munich) and Muhammed Yildiz (Kirchseeon, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system provides a driving function for the automated longitudinal control of a vehicle. The vehicle control system is configured ...