US Patent Issued to Hino Motors on Aug. 25 for "Self-position estimation device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,341, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hino Motors Ltd. (Hino, Japan).

"Self-position estimation device" was invented by Yuichiro Hirose (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-position estimation device includes a peripheral object information acquisition unit acquiring peripheral object information, a storage unit storing map information and dynamic object information, a dynamic object determination unit, and a self-position estimation unit. The dynamic object information includes fixed portion information and movable portion information. The dynamic object determination unit determines whether or not the dynamic object...