ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,439, issued on April 15, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for deactivation" was invented by Albin Remang (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Burkhard Siber (Sindelfingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated driving mode of a vehicle is automatically terminated if, due to a manual steering torque acting on the steering wheel of the vehicle, a system steering torque generated by a control system of an assistance system for automated driving mode in terms of amount is exceeded by a predetermined first value if at least one hand of a vehicle user is detected on the steering wheel of the vehicle, is...