US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Dec. 30 for "Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,980, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method" was invented by Mitsuo Shimotani (Tokyo), Yasushi Kodaka (Tokyo) and Takahiro Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object to provide technology allowing for appropriate control of a lighting apparatus to illuminate a road from a vehicle. An acquisition unit acquires position information of the vehicle, travel lane information indicating a travel lane in which the vehicle is traveling, and road information. A controller performs control to cause the lighting apparatus to illuminate a bra...