ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,459, issued on July 14, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for limiting a steering intervention of a driver assistance system" was invented by Ugur Delioglan (Sindelfingen, Germany), Daniel Keppler (Althengstett, Germany) and Thomas Weiskircher (Aidlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering intervention of a driver assistance system of a vehicle is limited by generating a manipulated variable of the driver assistance system the steering intervention and multiplying it a weighting factor determined based on a detected manual steering intervention of a driver and based on a predefined pe...