ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,070, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle behavior generation device, vehicle behavior generation method, and vehicle behavior generation program product" was invented by Hiroyuki Osawa (Kariya, Japan) and Akira Itoh (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle behavior generation device sets multiple possible behaviors of an own vehicle when the own vehicle travels along a planned route; sets multiple possible behaviors of a different vehicle existing around the own vehicle corresponding to each of the set multiple possible behaviors of the own vehicle; outputs information indicating a ...