ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,187, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating an automated vehicle" was invented by Sebastian Kleinschmidt (Esslingen, Germany) and Fridtjof Stein (Ostfildern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an automated vehicle involves determining that the vehicle is nearing a bend, a neighboring free lane is present on a side of the vehicle on the outside of the bend, a visual range of at least one detection unit, aligned in the driving direction of the vehicle, of an environment sensor is restricted due to the bend ahead, and, in the bend, due to the road ...