ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,279, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Vehicle guidance system and method for operating a driving function in the presence of a contradiction with map data" 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 guidance system provides a driving function for automated longitudinal control of a vehicle. The vehicle guidance system...