US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on May 6 for "Driving assistance system and driving assistance method for the automated driving of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,235, issued on May 6, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Driving assistance system and driving assistance method for the automated driving of a vehicle" was invented by Felix Klanner (Munich) and Horst Kloeden (Freiberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance system for automated driving of a vehicle includes at least one processor unit, which is designed to perform the following when the driving assistance system is carrying out a maneuver of turning onto a street: to determine, on the basis of environment data of an environment sensor system of the vehicle, whether another, on-coming road us...