US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on June 9 for "Method for trajectory prediction and method for automatically operating a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,494, issued on June 9, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for trajectory prediction and method for automatically operating a vehicle" was invented by Julian Schmidt (SteiBlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for trajectory prediction of vehicles in the surroundings of an ego vehicle involves determining degrees of interaction between the vehicles using an attention-based interaction algorithm trained by machine. Individual vehicles from the multitude of the vehicles located in the surroundings of the ego vehicle are identified as relevant to the trajectory prediction by the interact...