ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,342, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for initializing a motor vehicle" was invented by Anastasia Reinauer (Karlsruhe, Germany), Heiko Haegele (Gschwend, Germany), Stefan Nordbruch (Leonberg, Germany) and Thorsten Friedrich (Ilsfeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for initializing a motor vehicle, said motor vehicle comprising an assembly having a rolling chassis and a body provided on the rolling chassis. A check is made as to which components and functions are available in the rolling chassis and which components and functions are available ...