In its second pair of complaints, filed separately in the Eastern District of Texas against Honda (2:23-cv-00607) and Mercedes-Benz Group (2:23-cv-00607), The Phelan Group, LLC has upped the number of patents-in-suit by one. This past March, the plaintiff hit KIA and Toyota in the same district over six patents generally related to a system for authenticating a driver of a vehicle through the provision of automobiles that support certain advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Both cases ended in late November; now, those six patents are back in suit, with a topper.