US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Feb. 17 for "Drive assist apparatus and drive assist method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,308, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Drive assist apparatus and drive assist method" was invented by Mitsuo Shimotani (Tokyo), Tadashi Miyahara (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Ueno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a drive assist apparatus visually notifying a driver of information regarding a gradient of a road. A drive assist apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is to acquire gradient information of a road in which gradient illusion is estimated to occur in a driver of a vehicle. The processing circuitry is to perform control on an irradiation apparatus provi...