US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Nov. 11 for "Traveling route deciding device and automated driving system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,434, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Traveling route deciding device and automated driving system" was invented by Tetsuji Haga (Tokyo), Keisuke Morita (Tokyo), Yuta Wada (Tokyo), Genki Tanaka (Tokyo) and Takuya Taniguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This traveling route deciding device includes: an obstacle information acquisition unit which acquires obstacle information at regular intervals; an obstacle determination unit which determines whether each obstacle is a moving object or a static object, for all obstacles acquired by the obstacle information acquisition unit; a moving objec...