ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,047, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for adjusting external air intake in an interior of a vehicle" was invented by Alexander Hanuschkin (Weil der Stadt, Germany), Stefan Studer (Stuttgart, Germany) and Florian Etter (Esslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting external air intake in an interior of a vehicle involves continuously identifying an interior pollution level during a driving operation of the vehicle using recorded signals of a pollution sensor arranged in the interior. A pollution level of external air on a section of road ahead of the veh...