US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 18 for "Motion prediction device and motion prediction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,989, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Motion prediction device and motion prediction method" was invented by Ray Kawanishi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Katsuhiro Sakai (Kawasaki, Japan), Taisuke Sugaiwa (Chofu, Japan), Hiroshi Nakamura (Chofu, Japan) and Naoki Nagasaka (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion prediction device detecting, from surrounding data representing a situation in a predetermined range of surroundings of a vehicle, a traffic participant existing in the predetermined range, determining whether there is a blind area not represented in the surrounding data in the prede...