US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Oct. 7 for "Method for supporting an automatically driving vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,704, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for supporting an automatically driving vehicle" was invented by Christoph Gustav Keller (Stuttgart, Germany) and Holger Mielenz (Ostfildern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supporting an automatically driving vehicle is provided. In one embodiment, it is ascertained whether it is possible for the automatically driving vehicle to change lanes to a fast lane in order to pass an obstacle located in front of the automatically driving vehicle on a roadway. If not, the automatically driving vehicle stops before reaching the obsta...