MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202341087861 A) filed by Mercedes-Benz Group Ag, Stuttgart, Germany, on Dec. 21, 2023, for 'method and apparatus for executing buffered minimum risk maneuver for an autonomous vehicle.'

Inventor(s) include Mahendar Reddy Nomula; Sankalp Harish; and Deepti Siddagangappa.

The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure describes a method (700) and an apparatus (210) for executing minimum risk maneuver for a vehicle (104). The method comprises obtaining (702) point cloud data (PCD) associated with surrounding of the vehicle (...