ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,626, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Driver assistance system and method for outputting expanded warning information in the vehicle" was invented by Boris Israel (Munich), Felix Lauber (Munich), Desiree Meyer (Stockdorf, Germany) and Frederik Platten (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for outputting situation-dependent, expanded warning information in a driver assistance system of a vehicle. The driver assistance system outputs situation-contingent, expanded warning information in the vehicle. A registration unit registers an output of warning information i...