US Patent Issued to DENSO on May 6 for "Path planning device, path planning method, computer program product" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,234, issued on May 6, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Path planning device, path planning method, computer program product" was invented by Kouji Kawakita (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path planning device configured to plan a traveling path on a future route of a vehicle includes a lane evaluation unit, a score accumulation unit, and a lane selection unit. The lane evaluation unit is configured to estimate a risk score of each chronological section of each traveling lane parallel traveling lanes, the risk score representing a traveling risk. The score accumulation unit is configured to accumulate the ...