ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,309, issued on July 1, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for providing a traffic lane localization for a motor vehicle in a region of an infrastructure device" was invented by Timo Iken (Wittingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for providing a traffic lane localization for a motor vehicle in a region of an infrastructure device and to the motor vehicle. An infrastructure message is received, including at least one portion of traffic lane count information that describes a number of traffic lanes in the region of the infrastructure device. A portion of environment informati...