US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Feb. 10 for "Method for a controller of a vehicle for operating a movable component of the vehicle, controller, vehicle and computer program" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,147, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for a controller of a vehicle for operating a movable component of the vehicle, controller, vehicle and computer program" was invented by Bernd Ette (Wolfsburg, Germany) and Benedikt Beckmann (Angern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for operating a movable component of a vehicle. The system involves a control device that assigns a trajectory to the movable component and determines a control signal for operating the movable component based on the trajectory and a gesture. The assignment and control signal are determined using...