US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Nov. 18 for "Driving assistance system for the automated driving of a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,992, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Driving assistance system for the automated driving of a vehicle" was invented by Ivo Nikolov (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance system for the automated driving of a vehicle includes: a driving assistance module is configured to automate driving with a first degree of automation and a second higher degree of automation; an output module configured to output a driver instruction when a specified driver action is absent for a first period of time during automated driving with the first degree; and a user input module configured to r...