US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Aug. 11 for "Method for determining a navigation route for an automated driving operation of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,389, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for determining a navigation route for an automated driving operation of a vehicle" was invented by Martin Keppler (Oberreichenbach, Germany) and Tobias Mahler (Ostelsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation route for the automated driving operation is determined in a lane-specific manner. A node list is produced based on a digital attribute-based street map, the node list representing the geographical coordinates of a route determined by a navigation system. The node list is transferred into a digital sensor-based street map...