ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,880, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for ascertaining a vehicle trajectory" was invented by Sven Klomp (Uetze / Dollbergen, Germany), Stephan Max (Gifhorn, Germany) and Frank Barecke (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for ascertaining a vehicle trajectory, via a system that includes a motor vehicle and a network server. Individual trajectories of a plurality of motor vehicles being traversed, and secondary information linked to the individual trajectories are detected. The individual trajectories of the plurality of motor vehicles, and the linked...