ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,677, issued on May 13, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"System, method and software for displaying a distance marking" was invented by Marian Kreplin (Grafing, Germany) and Tobias Riesenweber (Vierkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system for displaying a distance marking for the driver of a motor vehicle, which is set up to receive speed information relating to the speed of the motor vehicle. Depending on the speed information, a safety distance of the motor vehicle relative to vehicles driving ahead is determined, depending on the determined safety distance, image inform...