US Patent Issued to CARROSSERIE HESS on July 1 for "Method for predicting future driving conditions for a vehicle" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,544, issued on July 1, was assigned to CARROSSERIE HESS AG (Bellach, Switzerland).

"Method for predicting future driving conditions for a vehicle" was invented by Alex Naef (Bellach, Switzerland), Hans-Joerg Gisler (Zollikofen, Switzerland), Martin Widmer (Grenchen, Switzerland), Andreas Heinrich Ritter (Zurich, Switzerland), Philipp Valentin Elbert (Zurich, Switzerland) and Christopher Harald Onder (Weisslingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for predicting future driving conditions for a vehicle (1), sensor data (2) are gathered while the vehicle (1) is traveling on a route. A position of the vehicle (1) is a...