US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on July 15 for "Vehicle control device and host vehicle position estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,921, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and host vehicle position estimation method" was invented by Masahiro Kiyohara (Tokyo), Takeshi Ogata (Tokyo), Hiroki Ota (Tokyo) and Shinichi Amaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host vehicle position estimation unit includes an absolute position estimation unit that estimates a first vehicle position based on absolute position information acquired from a GNSS. The host vehicle position estimation unit further includes a relative position estimation unit that estimates a second vehicle position based on relative positio...