US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Jan. 20 for "Lane estimation apparatus and map generation apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,576, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Lane estimation apparatus and map generation apparatus" was invented by Yuki Okuma (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lane estimation apparatus including an external circumstance detection part detecting an external circumstance around a subject vehicle, and an electronic control unit including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform estimating a current lane in which the subject vehicle travels, based on the external circumstance detected by the external circumstance detection part, and the estimating including estimating a time-b...