ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,160, issued on April 1, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Positioning apparatus" was invented by Kohei Mori (Tokyo) and Tomoya Kawagoe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a positioning apparatus which can reduce the error of the positioning information of the positioning satellite, by using either appropriate one of the positioning reinforcement information by the ground channel or the positioning reinforcement information by the satellite channel, according to execution state of the automatic driving. A positioning apparatus receives positioning information from positioning satellites; calculates a fir...