US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Feb. 24 for "Method for operating a self-driving vehicle by communicating about a blocked path" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,142, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating a self-driving vehicle by communicating about a blocked path" was invented by Klaus Alfred Hermann (Gartringen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a self-driving vehicle in the region of a crossing involves recording a further vehicle with right of way at the crossing and determining its intended path. If it is determined, based on the intended route, that the further vehicle will have to drive past the vehicle on one side after passing the crossing, it is determined whether the path of the further veh...