US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on May 27 for "Method for sending a vehicle-to-x message by a sender, method for processing a vehicle-to-x-message, and a vehicle-to-x-communications module" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,161, issued on May 27, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for sending a vehicle-to-x message by a sender, method for processing a vehicle-to-x-message, and a vehicle-to-x-communications module" was invented by Andreas Andrae (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Marc Menzel (Weimar, Germany) and Richard Scherping (Liederbach am Taunus, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for sending a vehicle-to-x-message including an information part and a safety part, wherein the safety part comprises information that can be used to evaluate quality and reliability of the informati...