ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,245, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Ryoh Inaba (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a vehicle control device capable of ensuring safety and ride comfort. The device includes: a self-location estimation processing unit 306 estimating self location (absolute position information on a map) of a vehicle by matching sensor information obtained from external sensors 2 to 5 mounted in the vehicle with map information including future information as a point group; a solid object movement predicting unit 307 predicting moveme...