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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Mercedes-Benz Group AG

45 pending office actions

Portfolio Summary

45
Total Pending OAs
14
Final Rejections
31
Non-Final OAs

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
19140686 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDIVIDUALLY ASSIGNING AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE FUNCTION SCHEME TO AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO 3662 Non-Final OA Jun 18, 2025
19137739 METHOD FOR ENCRYPTING PLAIN TEXT ZHAO, DON GORDON 2493 Non-Final OA Jun 11, 2025
18996368 METHOD FOR STATIC ALLOCATION AND ASSIGNMENT OF INFORMATION TO MEMORY AREAS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM AND VEHICLE DARE, RYAN A 2132 Non-Final OA Jan 17, 2025
18996177 CAMERA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF VO, TUNG T 2425 Non-Final OA Jan 17, 2025
18878166 METHOD FOR PROCESSING LOG FILES, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND VEHICLE PHAN, TUANKHANH D 2154 Final Rejection Dec 23, 2024
18877641 METHOD FOR PROCESSING POSE INFORMATION IN AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY AUTOMATED VEHICLE AND/OR ROBOT NGUYEN, CUONG H 3664 Non-Final OA Dec 20, 2024
18877296 METHOD FOR PLANNING A TARGET TRAJECTORY FOR AN AUTOMATICALLY DRIVING VEHICLE LEVY, MERRITT E 3666 Non-Final OA Dec 20, 2024
18877300 METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND PROVIDING LANE ROUTES MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A 3665 Non-Final OA Dec 20, 2024
18988107 Method and System to Personalize User Experience in a Vehicle KINGSLAND, KYLE J 3663 Non-Final OA Dec 19, 2024
18858465 VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR ISSUING RECOMMENDATIONS TO A PERSON DRIVING THE VEHICLE TO TAKE OVER VEHICLE CONTROL MIRZA, ADNAN M 3667 Non-Final OA Oct 21, 2024
18856311 METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A FUNCTIONAL DIAGNOSIS OF AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE COMPONENT, AND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM NGUYEN, BAO LONG T 3656 Non-Final OA Oct 11, 2024
18856312 METHOD FOR ASSIGNING VEHICLES TO CHARGING STATIONS, AND CHARGING SYSTEM SHAAWAT, MUSSA A 3669 Non-Final OA Oct 11, 2024
18849067 METHOD FOR DETECTING A SITUATION IN WHICH A PERSON SUFFERS A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, AND FIRST AID SYSTEM DOUGLAS, SHANE EMANUEL 3665 Non-Final OA Sep 20, 2024
18844927 Motor Vehicle GREENE, MARK L 3747 Non-Final OA Sep 06, 2024
18840230 METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THE CHARGING STATE OF AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE OF A VEHICLE, AND A VEHICLE ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN 3662 Non-Final OA Aug 21, 2024
18834790 METHOD FOR PROCESSING SPEECH INPUTS AND OPERATING DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE FUNCTIONS LEE, JANGWOEN 2656 Non-Final OA Jul 31, 2024
18832731 METHOD FOR ACTUATING AN ACCESS SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE NGUYEN, ROBERT T 3619 Non-Final OA Jul 24, 2024
18722316 APPARATUS FOR SECURING COMMUNICATION PERVIN, NUZHAT 3648 Non-Final OA Jun 20, 2024
18716677 METHOD FOR OPERATING A SPEECH DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND SPEECH DIALOGUE SYSTEM SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 2657 Non-Final OA Jun 05, 2024
18604265 INTERCONNECT PROVIDING FREEDOM FROM INTERFERENCE MAMO, ELIAS 2184 Non-Final OA Mar 13, 2024
18691597 METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN INTELLIGENT PRESELECTION OF SUITABLE CHARGING STATIONS FOR CARRYING OUT A CHARGING STOP, CHARGING STOP PLANNING ASSISTANT, AND VEHICLE PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 3667 Final Rejection Mar 13, 2024
18292404 ELECTRICAL DRIVE SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A CORRESPONDING ELECTRICAL DRIVE SYSTEM MASIH, KAREN 2846 Non-Final OA Jan 26, 2024
18292391 METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDIA CONTENT WHICH IS ADAPTED TO THE MOVEMENT OF A VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE REIDY, SEAN PATRICK 3663 Final Rejection Jan 26, 2024
18580316 A METHOD FOR PROVIDING USAGE INFORMATION OF AN ELECTRICAL GRID TO A PROVIDER AS WELL AS AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTING DEVICE PHAM, THOMAS K 2872 Non-Final OA Jan 18, 2024
18558864 Floor Structure for a Passenger Motor Vehicle and Modular System for a Body of a Motor Vehicle BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A 3612 Non-Final OA Nov 03, 2023
18287217 METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY STORING DATA SAIN, GAUTAM 2135 Final Rejection Oct 17, 2023
18286571 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A STARTING POINT BETWEEN TWO ENTITIES HORNER, MINATO LEE 3665 Final Rejection Oct 12, 2023
18283512 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INFLUENCING AN OPTICAL OUTPUT OF IMAGE DATA ON AN OUTPUT DEVICE IN A VEHICLE MOSCOLA, MATTHEW JOHN 3663 Final Rejection Sep 22, 2023
18229947 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF OPTIMIZING COMPUTE TASKS WU, BENJAMIN C 2195 Non-Final OA Aug 03, 2023
18356820 Vehicle Wheel-Based Computing Device CHEN, FRANK S 2611 Non-Final OA Jul 21, 2023
18261972 Air Outflow Device for Feeding Tempered Air For an Interior of a Motor Vehicle WEINERT, WILLIAM C 3762 Final Rejection Jul 18, 2023
18265222 Electric Axial Flux Machine, And Axle Comprising An Electric Drive SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE 2834 Final Rejection Jun 02, 2023
18037348 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING DIRT ON A VIEWING WINDOW OF A LIDAR BOLDA, ERIC L 3645 Non-Final OA May 17, 2023
18036935 METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A COMPONENT ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D 2853 Non-Final OA May 15, 2023
18195807 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYSTEM ON CHIP WONG, TITUS 2181 Final Rejection May 10, 2023
18030088 METHOD FOR FILLING AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE BY MEANS OF A CHARGING DEVICE, AS WELL AS A METHOD FOR OPERATING A CHARGING DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE JAMES, GREGORY MARK 3692 Final Rejection Apr 04, 2023
18027175 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING FALSE-POSITIVE DETECTIONS OF A LIDAR SENSOR LEE, PAUL D 2857 Non-Final OA Mar 20, 2023
18112974 VEHICLE SAFETY SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING DYNAMIC SEVERITY AND CONTROLLABILITY DETERMINATIONS SHARMA, SHIVAM 3665 Non-Final OA Feb 22, 2023
18041937 A Cargo Tracking System for Tracking a Cargo, as Well as a Corresponding Method RHIM, WOO CHUL 2676 Final Rejection Feb 16, 2023
18006157 METHOD FOR DETECTING DIRT ACCUMULATED ON AN OPTICAL SENSOR ARRANGEMENT WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID 3645 Non-Final OA Jan 20, 2023
18063568 SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR VERIFICATION OF DATA SORTING OPERATIONS MUSTAFA, IMRAN K 3668 Non-Final OA Dec 08, 2022
17979633 CONTEXT-SENSITIVE OVERLAY OF CONTENT VIA AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE RENZE, GEORGE NICHOLAS 2613 Final Rejection Nov 02, 2022
17801861 COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURING COMMUNICATION MAI, KEVIN S 2499 Final Rejection Aug 24, 2022
17784165 METHOD FOR SIGNALLING VITAL PARAMETERS AND/OR VITAL PARAMETER PATTERNS IN A VEHICLE MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS 2855 Final Rejection Jun 10, 2022
17641369 Method For Matching a Vehicle and a Charging Pile, Method for Determining a Charging Device Being Engaged with a Vehicle, and Corresponding Apparatus NGUYEN, NHA T 2851 Non-Final OA Mar 08, 2022

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