US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on July 22 for "Method for providing a clearance for use of a hard shoulder by means of a monitoring system, and monitoring system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,759, issued on July 22, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for providing a clearance for use of a hard shoulder by means of a monitoring system, and monitoring system" was invented by Tim Borowski (Bielefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a clearance for use of a hard shoulder of a road for motor vehicles involves detecting the hard shoulder using a detection device and an occupancy state of the hard shoulder is determined based on the basis of the detection. The clearance using the hard shoulder is provided based on the occupancy state and a decision criterion by mean...