US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Aug. 19 for "Self-position estimation device, self-driving system including the same, and self-generated map sharing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,635, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Self-position estimation device, self-driving system including the same, and self-generated map sharing device" was invented by Hideyuki Kume (Tokyo), Alex Masuo Kaneko (Tokyo), Toshiharu Sugawara (Tokyo) and Akira Kuriyama (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a self-position estimation device capable of highly accurately estimating self-location and attitudes on a map containing information such as lane centerlines, stop lines, and traffic rules. A representative self-position estimation device according to the presen...