ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,464, issued on April 29, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for controlling a transmit power of an active vehicle surround sensor" was invented by Tobias Frye (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for controlling a transmit power of at least one active vehicle surround sensor of a vehicle driven in an at least partially automated manner, at least one automated driving function of the vehicle being implemented on the basis of surroundings data acquired by the active vehicle surround sensor and/or on the basis of data received from an infrastructure. The method...