US Patent Issued to DENSO on Feb. 3 for "Automatic driving device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,881, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Automatic driving device and vehicle control method" was invented by Jingyu Xiang (Nisshin, Japan) and Hiroyuki Ohsawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic driving device generates a control plan for autonomously driving a vehicle using map data. The automatic driving device determines an acquisition status of the map data. The automatic driving device generates the control plan using the map data. The automatic driving device changes the control plan according to the acquisition status of the map data."

The patent was filed on Dec. 2, 2022, un...