US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on June 30 for "Method for determining an action strategy of a vehicle driving in the automated driving operation" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,269, issued on June 30, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for determining an action strategy of a vehicle driving in the automated driving operation" was invented by Eugen Kafer (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an action strategy of a vehicle driving in the automated driving operation when nearing a vehicle ahead which is stationary in its lane. The vehicle behind the stationary vehicle ahead stops and waits to restart its driving operation until the vehicle ahead starts up. If the vehicle is waiting for longer than a pre-determined waiting time, the vehicl...