Reduction of the risk of collision with an obscured motor vehicle

US12387602B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE
• KTM AG · AT

Inventors

• Johannes Hartog · Braunschweig, DE
• Daniel Hermann · Hillandale Drive East, DE
• Markus Schwarz · Schäching, DE
• Klaus Krumpholz · Rosenheim, DE
• Thomas Biehle · Hankensbüttel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 14, 2021
• Grant date: Aug 12, 2025
• Expiry date: Oct 11, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/12
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Technologies and techniques for reducing a collision risk between a first motor vehicle and a second motor vehicle. At least a first vehicle-to-environment message is transmitted by the first motor vehicle and received by the second motor vehicle. Using a second computing unit of the second motor vehicle, it is determined, depending on the vehicle-to-environment message, whether a risk situation exists in which the first motor vehicle is obscured by a preceding third motor vehicle. The second computing unit executes a criticality analysis to determine that the risk situation exists and, depending on the result of the criticality analysis, a risk-reducing measure is initiated.