US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Dec. 9 for "Method and device for operating a vehicle in an automated driving operation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,912, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for operating a vehicle in an automated driving operation" was invented by Volker Oltmann (Calw, Germany) and Nikolai Tochtermann (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a vehicle in an automated driving operation involves a main control device determining a driving instruction and providing it to an auxiliary control device. The driving instruction includes information about a course of a path on which the vehicle should be guided into a stopping position, which is determined by a series of path poin...