US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 8 for "Driver assistance system for the automated longitudinal guidance of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,174, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Driver assistance system for the automated longitudinal guidance of a motor vehicle" was invented by Andreas Lechner (Munich) and Stefan Treml (Hebertshausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance system for automated longitudinal guidance of a motor vehicle configured to detect at least one turning opportunity for the motor vehicle, and to reduce the speed of the motor vehicle in accordance with the at least one detected turning opportunity."

The patent was filed on April 26, 2021, under Application No. 18/008,567.

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