US Patent Issued to Daimler Truck on Aug. 4 for "Method of carrying out a departure inspection on an autonomous vehicle combination" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,406, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Daimler Truck AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

"Method of carrying out a departure inspection on an autonomous vehicle combination" was invented by Fridtjof Stein (Ostfildern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of carrying out a departure inspection on an autonomous vehicle combination. In a method that shortens the inspection period, before departure of the vehicle combination (1), a first region (15) under the towing vehicle (3) of the vehicle combination (1) is checked for living beings and objects by means of a sensor system (13) fixedly installed o...