US Patent Issued to CARIAD on Sept. 9 for "Autonomous driving mode assistance based on vehicle fleet data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,867, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CARIAD SE (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Autonomous driving mode assistance based on vehicle fleet data" was invented by Marco Broecker (Berlin) and Kai Kuhr (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance method by a control device is to receive driving environmental data from identically constructed motor vehicle sensor technologies of a first motor vehicle, as well as from at least one further motor vehicle, which drive on a set road section in an at least partially autonomous driving mode. Each motor vehicle may provide a road section model for each of the motor vehicles with an algorit...