ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,373, issued on May 27, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for assisting a motor vehicle" was invented by Rolf Nicodemus (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Stefan Nordbruch (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting a motor vehicle during a trip of the motor vehicle within an infrastructure, the trip of the motor vehicle being guided in an at least semiautomated manner. The method includes: receiving regional signals, which represent a first region of the infrastructure monitored using a surround-sensor system; for the motor vehicle approaching the first region, determining i...