US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Dec. 9 for "Method for projecting at least one light pattern into a vehicle environment and vehicle having at least one projector" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,912, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for projecting at least one light pattern into a vehicle environment and vehicle having at least one projector" was invented by Hanno Weber (Kirchheim/Teck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for projecting a light pattern into a vehicle environment using a vehicle projector involves the light pattern having navigation instructions for continued navigation in the form of a route to be selected for reaching a navigation target, in order to point a person in the direction of the navigation target after parking the vehicle."

The pate...