ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,239, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle control method and vehicular device" was invented by Tomohito Terazawa (Kariya, Japan), Genki Kitahara (Kariya, Japan), Ryota Terada (Kariya, Japan), Yasuhiko Mukai (Kariya, Japan) and Yuuta Fujii (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map server acquires a position coordinate and a category of a POI. The map server sets a notice area at a predetermined distance backward from the POI in a traveling direction along a road. The map server distributes map data to a vehicle. The map data is a data set including a position of the notice area, a conditio...