US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on April 14 for "Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,935, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" was invented by Takahiro Sakai (Tokyo), Morihiko Sakano (Tokyo), Hideyuki Kume (Tokyo), Hitoshi Hayakawa (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Tatsuhiko Monji (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device that recognizes a lane marking around an own vehicle with at least one sensor includes a lane marking detection unit that detects lane marking information from data acquired by the sensor, a lane marking type candidate estimation unit that recognizes a lane marking type fro...