ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,766, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Daimler Truck AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).
"Method for operating a vehicle" was invented by Tobias Aurand (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Markus Zimmer (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a vehicle includes continuously checking during a driving operation whether an emergency situation is present in the vehicle and, when an emergency situation is detected, initiating an emergency stopping maneuver for safely parking the vehicle, signalling the emergency situation to a road user in a surroundings of the vehicle, and aborting the emergency ...