ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,361, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for operating a vehicle for highly automated driving, and vehicle for highly automated driving" was invented by Maxim Dolgov (Renningen, Germany), Raquel Tirach (Llupia, France) and Thomas Michalke (Weil der Stadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a vehicle for highly automated driving. The method includes a step of reading sensor data that comprise trip data of the vehicle from at least one acceleration sensor, at least one position sensor, and a velocity sensor, infrastructure data of infrastructure ele...