US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Oct. 14 for "Method for recognising objects which are relevant to the safety of a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,206, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for recognising objects which are relevant to the safety of a vehicle" was invented by Stefan Studer (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method involves classifying a respective object, which has been recognized by an object recognition device of the vehicle and initially classified as not relevant to the vehicle, as potentially relevant if it is recognized by a gaze recording device in the vehicle that a gaze of at least one vehicle occupant of the vehicle lingers on the respective object for longer than a predetermined mini...