US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Dec. 23 for "Map reliability determination apparatus and driving assistance apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,297, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Map reliability determination apparatus and driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Yuki Okuma (Wako, Japan) and Hayato Ikeda (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map reliability determination apparatus includes a microprocessor and a memory coupled to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: acquiring a traveling trajectory of a predetermined section on which a subject vehicle has traveled; recognizing, based on a map information around the subject vehicle, a pair of left and right lane boundary lines which defines a lane on...