US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Dec. 30 for "Method and system for determining a starting point between entities" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,366, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and system for determining a starting point between entities" was invented by Michael Engel (Stuttgart, Germany), Mark Gerban (Hamburg, Germany) and Benjamin Lange (Gartringen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining a starting point between entities. The locations of the entities are determined in a map, a circle enclosing all entities is determined and an optimum position of the starting point is determined iteratively. The starting point initially coincides with a center point of the circle enclosing the...