US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Sept. 9 for "Method and control device for operating a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,839, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, China).

"Method and control device for operating a motor vehicle" was invented by Stefan Spuhler (Markdorf, Germany), Stefan Blattner (Ravensburg, Germany), Stefan Bemetz (Wangen im Allgau, Germany), Dennis Wohlfahrt (Kressbronn am Bodensee, Germany), Thorsten Leim (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Jochen Breuer (Tettnang, Germany), Mario Steinborn (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Fabian Ley (Burstadt, Germany), Hannes Werner (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Benjamin Berger (Markdorf, Germany) and Christian Mittelberger (Ravensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office:...