US Patent Issued to Daimler Truck on Nov. 3 for "Method and device for the automated driving mode of a vehicle, and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,206, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Daimler Truck AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

"Method and device for the automated driving mode of a vehicle, and vehicle" was invented by Fridtjof Stein (Ostfildern, Germany), Sebastian Kleinschmidt (Hannover, Germany) and Stefan Heyer (Esslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for autonomously driving a vehicle. When a bend is detected ahead of the vehicle, it is determined whether the visibility of a detection unit is below a threshold value. If so, the vehicle is automatically maneuvered to change lanes to an outside lane of the bend."

The patent was filed on April 1,...