US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 19 for "Map information output device, automatic driving control system, map information output system, and map information output method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,641, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Map information output device, automatic driving control system, map information output system, and map information output method" was invented by Hiroki Ukai (Kariya, Japan), Takao Kashu (Tokyo) and Chika Tsumori (Funabashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map information output device including a map information output unit that outputs control map information for automatic driving control of a vehicle to an automatic driving control unit The map information output device includes: a map storage unit storing an origi...