US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Aug. 18 for "Control system, management method, and management program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,284, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Control system, management method, and management program" was invented by Seiya Kato (Tokyo), Takahiro Ikeda (Tokyo), Takashi Matsumoto (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Atarashi (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Fuse (Tokyo) and Akihiro Kondo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system, a management method, and a management program for autonomous driving capable of reliably performing a safety check on a surrounding of an autonomous driving vehicle and reducing a risk of collision during a startup due to a check omission. Whether a safety check is performed is grasped using...