US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Dec. 9 for "Computer implemented method for providing a vehicle service and triggering a process to pay for the vehicle service, software program, and system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,875, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Computer implemented method for providing a vehicle service and triggering a process to pay for the vehicle service, software program, and system" was invented by Felix Kohlbrenner (Munich) and Christian Loebel (Ismaning, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle service and a process to pay for the vehicle service are provided. A data connection is established between a service point and an electronic control unit of a vehicle. Initial vehicle service data is gathered that includes a timestamp of establishing the data connection, identification data ...