ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,988, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Electronic control device" was invented by Yuichi Komoriya (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control device includes a storage device that stores target information of a target detected by a plurality of external sensors installed in an own vehicle, and a control device that processes the target information stored in the storage device. The control device acquires information on an environment of a road on which the own vehicle travels and a position of the own vehicle, sets an exclusion area, which is a region for determin...