US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Dec. 9 for "Method for updating traffic information relating to a vehicle, computer-readable medium, system, and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,120, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for updating traffic information relating to a vehicle, computer-readable medium, system, and vehicle" was invented by Christian Denich (Munich) and Sabrina Denich (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method updates traffic information relating to a vehicle. The method includes ascertaining a change in traffic information for each road section of a navigation map responsive to a request message from the vehicle. The method also includes determining a criticality value for the ascertained change in the traffic information for each road section, and...