US Patent Issued to YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "Map generation method and map generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,078, issued on June 17, was assigned to YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Map generation method and map generation device" was invented by Yuichiro Dake (Osaka, Japan), Isao Wakabayashi (Osaka, Japan), Naohiro Hara (Osaka, Japan), Tomoya Fukukawa (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyuki Yokoue (Osaka, Japan) and Satoshi Minamiyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes a radar configured to detect surrounding objects and terrain, and a LIDAR configured to detect the surrounding objects and terrain using a narrower detection range and a higher resolution than the radar. The disclosure also includ...