US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 30 for "Map information output device and method to output and select control map information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,373, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Map information output device and method to output and select control map information" 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 includes: a rule selector sequentially selecting one road selection rule from a plurality of road selection rules based on route guidance information; a target road selector for (i) selecting a target road for constructing control map information based on the road selection rule ...