US Patent Issued to Volkswagen Group of America Investments on Dec. 16 for "Method for controlling a driving behavior of an autonomously driving vehicle, processing device for performing the method, data storage medium and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,078, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Method for controlling a driving behavior of an autonomously driving vehicle, processing device for performing the method, data storage medium and vehicle" was invented by Mareike Ploog (Munich) and Miria Von Rotberg (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a driving behavior of an autonomously driving vehicle, wherein a processing device performs the following steps for at least one region of a road network: receiving trace data of the region, wherein the trace data describe at least one trace of historic moveme...