US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Nov. 4 for "Autonomously guiding vehicles using vehicles-centered occupancy grid including collected information about road users" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,677, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Autonomously guiding vehicles using vehicles-centered occupancy grid including collected information about road users" was invented by Andreas Petrovic (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing information detected by on-board sensors about road users in the surroundings of a vehicle involves providing the detected information as data structures representing vectors. Every vector is thereby associated with a cell of a predefined vehicle-mounted occupancy grid, in which a road user described by the respective information...