US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on May 20 for "Vehicle orientation estimation system and vehicle orientation estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,503, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle orientation estimation system and vehicle orientation estimation method" was invented by Zihan Yu (Hitachinaka, Japan), Takakiyo Yasukawa (Hitachinaka, Japan), Kota Irie (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Tatsuhiko Monji (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle orientation estimation system includes a region setting unit. The region setting unit can set a first region and a second region that is on a same horizontal line as the first region, in a measurement region corresponding to a road surface acquired by a distance measurement devi...