ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,501, issued on July 15, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Method for creating a guidance trajectory for a first motor vehicle, method for controlling a motor vehicle and method for operating a motor vehicle" was invented by Daniel Munning (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating a guidance trajectory for a first transportation vehicle which includes receiving swarm data for a route section that represent at least one motion trajectory of at least one second transportation vehicle traveling through this route section; determining a distance from the at least one motion trajectory represented ...