US Patent Issued to DENSO on Feb. 4 for "Estimation device, estimation method, program product for estimation" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,976, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Estimation device, estimation method, program product for estimation" was invented by Yuuichi Minamiguchi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation includes a dead reckoning unit, a map matching unit, and a parameter correction unit. The dead reckoning unit is configured to estimate a state quantity by dead reckoning based on (i) a dynamics model including a parameter that changes a behavior of the vehicle and (ii) internal information acquired from an inside of the vehicle. The map matching unit is configured to observe the state quantity by map ma...