US Patent Issued to JOST-WERKE DEUTSCHLAND on July 15 for "Method for moving a vehicle to a component of an object at a distance therefrom (pre-positioning point)" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,331, issued on July 15, was assigned to JOST-WERKE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Neu-Isenburg, Germany).

"Method for moving a vehicle to a component of an object at a distance therefrom (pre-positioning point)" was invented by Mark Muller (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for moving a vehicle to a component of an object at a distance therefrom, the vehicle having a navigation module which has a camera and an evaluation electronics, and an identification element is attached to the object in a predetermined position in such a way that it is recognized by the camera in a far range (Dmax) of the vehicle from the object, and...