US Patent Issued to DENSO on Dec. 2 for "Map server and map distribution method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,099, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Map server and map distribution method" was invented by Genki Kitahara (Kariya, Japan), Tomohito Terazawa (Kariya, Japan) and Yasuhiko Mukai (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map server includes a difficult place setting unit, a distribution map generation unit, and a distribution processing unit. The difficult place setting unit identifies, based on a cancel point report from a vehicle, a difficult place which is a point where vehicle control involving a driving support or automatic driving is highly likely cancelled. The distribution map generation un...