US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Jan. 27 for "Vehicle control system and method for operating a driving function taking into account the distance from the stop line" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,081, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Vehicle control system and method for operating a driving function taking into account the distance from the stop line" was invented by Wolfgang Hempel (Sinzing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system provides a driving function for automated longitudinal control of a vehicle. The vehicle control system is designed to determine, on the basis of surroundings data from one or more surroundings sensors of the vehicle, positional data relating to the position of a first signaling unit, which is located in front of the vehicle in the di...