US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Dec. 9 for "Map collection system, map server device, in-vehicle device and map collection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,911, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Map collection system, map server device, in-vehicle device and map collection method" was invented by Toshiharu Suzuki (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Yasunari Goto (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map server device (200) transmits mapping software to an in-vehicle device (300) mounted on a measurement vehicle. The in-vehicle device receives the mapping software, acquires measurement data obtained by the measurement vehicle, generates map data by executing the mapping software by using the acquired measurement data as an input, and trans...