ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,399, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).
"Autonomous driving control device" was invented by Takuya Kume (Kariya-city, Japan) and Kazuki Izumi (Kariya-city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road shape grasping unit is configured to grasp a road shape of a merging area present in a traveling direction of a subject vehicle traveling with an autonomous travel control in which a driver has no surroundings monitoring obligation. A continuation determination unit is configured to determine, according to the road shape of the merging area, whether to continue the autonomous travel control in the mergin...