US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on Dec. 16 for "Method for operating a driver information system in an ego-vehicle and driver information system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,687, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a driver information system in an ego-vehicle and driver information system" was invented by Gordon Seitz (Ehra-Lessien, Germany), Johanna Sandbrink (Braunschweig, Germany) and Marie Puhle (Gifhorn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a driver information system in an ego-vehicle is disclosed. First environment data are detected in an environment of the ego-vehicle at a first time. At least one further road user is identified based on the detected first environment data. A driver information display is provided,...