US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on Aug. 19 for "Vehicles, methods, computer programs, and apparatuses for resolving a deadlock traffic situation of an automatically operated vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,305, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Vehicles, methods, computer programs, and apparatuses for resolving a deadlock traffic situation of an automatically operated vehicle" was invented by Israel Gonzalez Vazquez (Wolfsburg, Germany), Andreas Pfadler (Berlin), Guillaume Jornod (Berlin) and Andreas Kwoczek (Lehre, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transportation vehicles, methods, computer programs, and apparatuses for resolving a deadlock traffic situation in an automatically operated transportation vehicle. A method includes detecting the deadlock traffic situation, reporting the deadlock traffic sit...