US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on May 20 for "Method, device, computer program and computer program product for operating a driver assistance function of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,513, issued on May 20, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method, device, computer program and computer program product for operating a driver assistance function of a vehicle" was invented by Dominik Bauch (Muehldorf am Inn, Germany), Marco Baumgartl (Gilching, Germany), Michael Himmelsbach (Munich), Josef Mehringer (Gmund, Germany), Daniel Meissner (Friedberg, Germany) and Luca Trentinaglia (Eichenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a driver assistance function of a vehicle includes determining a position of the vehicle, providing map data of a road map, providing current and histor...