US Patent Issued to Volkswagen, KTM on Aug. 12 for "Reduction of the risk of collision with an obscured motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,602, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany) and KTM AG (Mattighofen, Austria).

"Reduction of the risk of collision with an obscured motor vehicle" was invented by Johannes Hartog (Braunschweig, Germany), Daniel Hermann (Sassenburg/Stuede, Germany), Markus Schwarz (Edling, Germany), Klaus Krumpholz (Rosenheim, Germany) and Thomas Biehle (Gross Oesingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for reducing a collision risk between a first motor vehicle and a second motor vehicle. At least a first vehicle-to-environment message is transmitted by the first motor vehicle and receiv...