US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on May 20 for "Method and system for automatically determining a display status of a traffic signal installation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,891, issued on May 20, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and system for automatically determining a display status of a traffic signal installation" was invented by Felix Modes (Erding, Germany) and Oliver Wick (Hohenkammer, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method automatically determines a display status of a traffic signal installation by: detecting a traffic signal installation in vehicle surroundings of a vehicle, including a signal transmitter structure of the traffic signal installation; detecting an electromagnetic signal issuing from the traffic signal installation; detecting intensity vari...