ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,107, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software NV (Leuven, Belgium).

"Method to operate a vehicle, method to test an autonomous driving system, system with a vehicle" was invented by Theo Geluk (Tholen, Netherlands) and Son Tong (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a vehicle includes: sensing the vehicle's surroundings and vehicle's operating parameters by sensors; supporting the vehicle's driving by a first autonomous driving control receiving the sensed surroundings and the sensed operating parameters and the first autonomous driving control generating vehicle driving commands for...