ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,369, issued on July 8, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for automatically executing a vehicle function, method for evaluating a computer vision method and evaluation circuit for a vehicle" was invented by Ruby Moritz (Wolfsburg, Germany), Peter Schlicht (Wolfsburg, Germany), Fabian Huger (Wolfenbuttel, Germany) and Yasin Bayzidi (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for automatically executing a vehicle function of a vehicle based on spatially resolved raw sensor data for environment perception generated by at least one sensor of the vehicle. The method comprises receivi...