ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,522, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH (Munich).

"Monitoring system and method for monitoring" was invented by Kornel Straub (Pomaz, Hungary), Benjamin Erdrich (Freudenstadt, Germany) and Huba Nemeth (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for an environment of a vehicle. The vehicle includes a group of sensors adapted to cover various regions of the environment. The monitoring system includes a receiving module, a classification module, and a processing module. The receiving module is adapted to obtain information about a driving task of the vehicle. The class...