US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Dec. 30 for "Segment-based driver analysis and individualized driver assistance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,113, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Segment-based driver analysis and individualized driver assistance" was invented by Jonas Kaste (Alfeld, Germany), Maximilian Templer (Braunschweig, Germany) and Sevsel Gamze Kabil (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for controlling a vehicle, in which geometric test data and driving dynamics test data are obtained on a test track. The test data are divided into clusters, and cluster-specific drive-dynamic data is defined for each cluster. Subsequently, the route to be driven is clustered and the vehicle is contr...