ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,472, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Moving body control system and moving body control method" was invented by Keisuke Hokai (Gotemba, Japan) and Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving body control system executes a localization process that estimates a position of a moving body based on sensor-detected information and feature object map information indicating a position of a feature object. The moving body control system executes driving assist control based on the estimated position of the moving body. A first range includes the estimated position of the movin...