US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on June 10 for "Method for operating a lane change assistance system of a motor vehicle, and lane change assistance system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,423, issued on June 10, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a lane change assistance system of a motor vehicle, and lane change assistance system" was invented by Michael Schlichte (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for operating a lane change assistance system, in which a detection apparatus, which is provided on a front corner of the motor vehicle, monitors an adjacent lane in front and to the side, and in which the detection apparatus detects an object on the adjacent lane and, when the detected object is evaluated by way of an electronic c...