US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 30 for "Method for operating a lane-change assistance system of a vehicle, with speed-dependent differentiation of a subsequent blinking signal, lane-change assistance system, and vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,988, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for operating a lane-change assistance system of a vehicle, with speed-dependent differentiation of a subsequent blinking signal, lane-change assistance system, and vehicle" was invented by Michael Gutbrod (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for operating a lane-change assistance system of a vehicle. An operating input from a driver is registered at an operating element, which is assigned to travel direction indicators. A blinking signal is output using the travel direction indicators after the reg...