US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Feb. 24 for "Method for checking a pre-determined speed limit for vehicles on a road and method for supporting a driver" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,055, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for checking a pre-determined speed limit for vehicles on a road and method for supporting a driver" was invented by Eugen Kafer (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A predetermined speed limit for vehicles on a road is checked by determining a situation-dependent suitable driving speed for driving on a route portion of the road, and if the suitable driving speed falls short of the predetermined speed limit, the predetermined speed limit is evaluated as unsuitable."

The patent was filed on June 22, 2022, under Application No. 1...