ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,368, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle position estimation system with sensing for object detection and estimation of feature points" was invented by Yuichi Komoriya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position estimation system provided in a vehicle can include a front sensor, a peripheral sensor, a position estimation device, and a control device. The position estimation device can be configured to determine weights for each of a plurality of pieces of information related to a state and a surrounding environment of the vehicle, the plurality of pieces of information comprising...