ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,211, issued on May 6, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for detecting the standstill of a vehicle" was invented by Sebastian Roith (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Jens Strobel (Freiberg am Neckar, Germany) and Manuel Popp (Abstatt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a standstill of a vehicle includes detecting the standstill of the vehicle using at least one sensor, and, when the standstill is detected using the at least one sensor, carrying out a test routine for checking the standstill of the vehicle. The test routine uses at least one signal from at least one rate-of-rotation sensor...