US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Feb. 3 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,880, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Koichiro Ozaki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Masashi Seimiya (Hitachinaka, Japan), Tomoyasu Sakaguchi (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Yoshitaka Fukasawa (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a processor, a memory and a sensor that acquires surrounding environment information of the vehicle, a host vehicle position estimation unit that estimates the route of the vehicle, a surrounding environment storage unit that stores the surrounding environment information and the route estimated by t...