ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,081, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Driving assistance device" was invented by Kota Ishikawa (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device performs driving assistance of a vehicle on a basis of surrounding information collected by a plurality of sensors provided in the vehicle. The driving assistance device includes: a route calculation unit configured to calculate a movement route of the vehicle to a target position on a basis of the surrounding information from the plurality of sensors; a switching unit configured to switch settings of an upper limit value of acceleration...