US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Aug. 25 for "Computation device and lane forming method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,693, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Computation device and lane forming method" was invented by Akihiko Hyodo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computation device includes a map acquisition unit that acquires map information in a lane level; an obstruction information acquisition unit that acquires passing obstruction information on a lane on which a vehicle advancing in a first direction travels; and a temporary lane forming unit that divides lane information of the map information into sections based on the passing obstruction information, and updates a map attribute in the lane ...