ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,298, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Automated generation and refinement of variation parameters for simulation scenarios" was invented by Thomas Muehlenstaedt (Bavaria, Germany), Roman Nagy (Unterhaching, Germany) and Jost Poettner (Maisach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating and refining simulation scenarios. For example, the method includes generating multiple base scenarios, each including one or more constant and one or more variable parameters. For each of the base scena...