ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,359, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).
"Method for operating a transportation vehicle and a transportation vehicle" was invented by Jannis Hoppe (Braunschweig, Germany) and Daniel Munning (Braunschweig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a transportation vehicle wherein an image capturing unit is used to generate an optical image of an upcoming roadway lying ahead in the direction of travel of the transportation vehicle. The image is used to ascertain an ego lane of the roadway assigned to the transportation vehicle and an upcoming profile of the ego lane. At least one item of meta...