ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,621, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Traveling track generation device and traveling track generation method" was invented by Genki Kitahara (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entry point and an exit point are specified in a non-lane section. A lane definition line is searched to be continuous in a longitudinal direction of the road from the entry point to the exit point. A virtual lane marking line is generated to connect between the lane marking line on an entry side and the lane marking line on an exit side, based on the lane definition line detected as a search result. A travelling t...