US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 9 for "Self localization method, control apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,904, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Self localization method, control apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Chuya Ogawa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-localization method according to the present disclosure includes the following first to fourth steps. The first step is acquiring terrain data in which a position and an elevation of a ground surface on a traveling area of the vehicle are managed. The second step is acquiring time series data of acceleration in a vertical direction of the vehicle. The third step is estimating an al...