US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on April 22 for "Method for using a processor unit and vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,977, issued on April 22, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for using a processor unit and vehicle" was invented by Thomas Weber (Herrenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using a processor unit of an autonomously movable vehicle involves making a computing power of the processor unit available to at least one external computer network and/or to a computer cluster during a process of charging an electrical energy storage unit of the vehicle."

The patent was filed on Sept. 21, 2018, under Application No. 16/970,045.

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