US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 21 for "Vehicle position estimation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,390, issued on July 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Vehicle position estimation device" was invented by Shunya Kumano (Nisshin-city, Japan) and Takeshi Shikimachi (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle position estimation device includes an external information acquisition unit, a vehicle parameter acquisition unit, a map data acquisition unit, a lane change determination unit, and a position estimation unit. The external information acquisition unit acquires external information. The vehicle parameter acquisition unit acquires a vehicle parameter related to traveling. The map data acquisi...