US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Method and apparatus for determining and dealing with an incorrect system time of a road user" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,636, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for determining and dealing with an incorrect system time of a road user" was invented by Sebastian Strunck (Niedernhausen, Germany), Marc Menzel (Weimar, Germany) and Thomas Grotendorst (Eschborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by an apparatus belonging to a first road user comprises receiving a vehicle-to-X (V2X) message by a V2X communication apparatus, wherein the V2X message comprises time information for determining a system time of a second road user, determining a system ti...