ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,726, issued on June 10, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for location-dependent verification of a teleoperator for remote control of a vehicle" was invented by Andreas Heyl (Weil der Stadt, Germany) and Paulius Duplys (Markgroeningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for location-dependent verification of a teleoperator for remote control of a vehicle. At its current location, the vehicle repeatedly and automatedly performs the following: receiving, from the teleoperator, during remote control by the teleoperator, a response message requested via a network, ascertaining a current value of...