US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on July 15 for "Service station for identifying the dirtiness of a vehicle component, and method for operating the service station" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,472, issued on July 15, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Service station for identifying the dirtiness of a vehicle component, and method for operating the service station" was invented by Daniel Schutz (Lehre, Germany), Maik Otremba (Braunschweig, Germany), Stephan Herold (Braunschweig, Germany), Juan Mauricio Toro Ramos (Braunschweig, Germany) and Kristoph Toppel (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service station for vehicles of an autonomous vehicle fleet. The service station includes at least one service module that is designed to identify the dirtiness of at least one vehicle component of the...