US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN, AUDI on March 25 for "Method, system, module and software for intelligently governing a multi-way stop intersection" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,748, issued on March 25, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany) and AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method, system, module and software for intelligently governing a multi-way stop intersection" was invented by Thorsten Hehn (Ingolstadt, Germany), Joerg Plechinger (Munich), Daniel Pfaller (Wettstetten, Germany), Markus Mueller (Hohenwart, Germany), John Walpuck (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Jovan Zagajac (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hendrik-Joern Guenther (Peine, Germany) and Kevin Lieberman (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Movement of vehicles through an intersection relative to one another is actively coordinated. Th...