ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,745, issued on March 25, was assigned to Daimler Truck AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

"Method for communication of an at least partially autonomously driving motor vehicle and a pedestrian by means of a system, and system" was invented by Janine Guenther (Leinfelden, Germany), Nicolai Spohrer (Stuttgart, Germany), Lucas Volkert (Tiefenbronn, Germany) and Florian Flerlage (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communication between an at least partially autonomously driving motor vehicle and a pedestrian by a system includes detecting a presence of the pedestrian by detecting a presence of a mobile re...