ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,260, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method of planning a lane change maneuver for an automated vehicle" was invented by Jonas Paczia (Stuttgart, Germany) and Hubert Rehborn (Sindelfingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of planning a lane change maneuver from one lane to an outer lane to prepare for an approaching exit from a multi-laned section of road for an automated vehicle is provided. The vehicle is or can be coupled to a central computer for data exchange. Traffic data representing a local traffic volume on the multi-laned section of road is received by the cent...