US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Aug. 12 for "Lane change prediction system and lane change prediction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,365, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lane change prediction system and lane change prediction method" was invented by Taku Umeda (Tokyo), Takuji Morimoto (Tokyo), Tomoki Uno (Tokyo) and Yuta Takashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a lane change prediction system and a lane change prediction method which can predict whether the merging vehicle interrupts on the front side or the back side of the object vehicle. A lane change prediction system, when the peripheral vehicle which exists around the object vehicle is a merging vehicle, predicts whether the merging vehicle interrupts...