US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on Nov. 4 for "Method for assisting a user of a vehicle by using an indicator for signaling a change of an operating mode of the vehicle with respect to degree of automation and for signaling an escalation level for the change" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,529, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for assisting a user of a vehicle by using an indicator for signaling a change of an operating mode of the vehicle with respect to degree of automation and for signaling an escalation level for the change" was invented by Achim Pruksch (Neudenau, Germany), Hanna Otto (Stuttgart, Germany), Javier Riel Rosales (Shanghai), Lenne Ahrens (Heimsheim, Germany), Liza Christine Dixon (Heilbronn, Germany), Lu Wang (Shanghai), Norbert Schneider (Wuerzburg, Germany) and Yao Pan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting a user in an interac...