US Patent Issued to DENSO on Nov. 4 for "Autonomous driving apparatus and rule determination apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,537, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Autonomous driving apparatus and rule determination apparatus" was invented by Shunya Kumano (Nisshin, Japan), Satoru Yoshikawa (Nisshin, Japan) and Hiroyuki Osawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving apparatus, which is used in a subject vehicle capable of performing an autonomous driving, is configured to: determine a deviation value of each of one or more candidate routes, which indicates a possibility of the subject vehicle deviating from a traveling rule when the subject vehicle travels the corresponding candidate route, based on a...