US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Feb. 24 for "Method and computing system for travelway feature detection and reporting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,953, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and computing system for travelway feature detection and reporting" was invented by Tim Fenlon (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Thomas Bilich (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and computing systems for travelway feature detection and reporting are presented. A control circuit may receive sensor data indicative of a feature within a travelway on which the vehicle is traveling and motion data indicative of a movement of a component of the vehicle associated with the feature. The control circuit may receive positioning data ass...