ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,933, issued on April 7, was assigned to Daimler Truck AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).
"Method for safeguarding a danger zone" was invented by Fridtjof Stein (Ostfildern, Germany), Tobias Schwalb (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Marcus Liebhardt (Waiblingen, Germany) and Wolfgang Kob (Waiblingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for safeguarding a self-driving, damaged vehicle includes independently detecting damage of the damaged vehicle by the damaged vehicle and sending information concerning the damage to a central computing unit, connected with the damaged vehicle, of an operator of the damaged vehicle by...