US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Oct. 28 for "Method for determining and outputting a driving speed adapted to a driving situation" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,372, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for determining and outputting a driving speed adapted to a driving situation" was invented by Eugen Kafer (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving speed of vehicles adapted to a driving situation is determined when an object located next to a roadway of a vehicle obscures at least portions of a bend lying ahead of the vehicle. Detected speed behavior of other vehicles in the region of the bend, in which a driving speed of the other vehicles in each case falls below a predetermined locally permissible maximum speed for neg...