ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,480, issued on March 24, was assigned to Daimler Truck AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).
"Method and device for operating a driverless ego vehicle" was invented by Fridtjof Stein (Ostfildern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a first vehicle which is a driverless ego vehicle. The method includes performing a situation analysis in the driverless ego vehicle to identify an overtaking maneuver that is being carried out by a second vehicle in which the second vehicle can no longer be expected to avoid a collision with the driverless ego vehicle and/or with a third vehicle. When the overtaking maneuver is...