US Patent Issued to AGCO International on July 14 for "Vehicle being operable in an autonomous driving mode and activation device for activating the autonomous driving mode" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,506, issued on July 14, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Vehicle being operable in an autonomous driving mode and activation device for activating the autonomous driving mode" was invented by Christian Roberto Kelber (Marktoberdorf, Germany), Oliver Kreil (Marktoberdorf, Germany) and Michael Sinning (Marktoberdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle (22) being operable in an autonomous driving mode having a parking brake (17) with a first actuation unit (9) configured to apply or release the parking brake (17); an activation device (10) configured to activate or deactivate ...