US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on June 17 for "Control of a vehicle via reference sensor data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,651, issued on June 17, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Control of a vehicle via reference sensor data" was invented by Andreas Heinzler (Ravensburg, Germany), Carolin Heller (Achberg, Germany), Markus Birk (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Gabriela Jager (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for a vehicle (101) in which the vehicle (101) is controlled manually while sensor data, from at least one sensor of the vehicle (101), is collected and stored. Then the vehicle (101) is controlled autonomously while sensor data, from the at least one sensor is detected and matc...