ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,607, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Information processing device" was invented by Takeru Ninomiya (Tokyo), Hideaki Kido (Tokyo) and Tatsuhiko Monji (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device estimates a road shape of a road on which a host vehicle travels based on map information acquired from a map information unit and sensor information acquired from a sensor unit. The information processing device includes a sensor resolution characteristic management unit which manages a sensor resolution characteristic of the sensor unit, which corresponds t...