US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Oct. 21 for "Vehicle position estimation device and vehicle position estimation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,262, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle position estimation device and vehicle position estimation method" was invented by Takeshi Ogata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to obtain a host vehicle position estimation device capable of estimating a highly reliable traveling road. The present invention relates to a host vehicle position estimation device (100) that estimates a position on a map of a host vehicle using information of an autonomous navigation position calculated based on vehicle information (102) and output of an inertial sensor (...