US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Aug. 25 for "Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,479, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" was invented by Hideyuki Kume (Hitachinaka, Japan), Morihiko Sakano (Tokyo), Shigenori Hayase (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Tatsuhiko Monji (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device can be configured to set a determination point in which an assumed self-position of own vehicle that is assumed on a map, a position of a measurement target feature on the map, and an error predicted as a difference between the position on the map and an actual position of the measureme...