ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,915, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"System and method for providing a navigation map to a vehicle" was invented by Ulrich Muehlbauer (Munich), Christian Denich (Munich) and Sabrina Denich (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a navigation map to a vehicle includes receiving, at a server, a request message in order to update the navigation map of the vehicle. The method further includes ascertaining a change to a portion of the navigation map of the vehicle on the basis of the received request message from the vehicle and on the basis of a current portion of the navigati...