ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,566, issued on June 2, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device and autonomous driving system" was invented by Qixian Quan (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle control device 100, a rough-road travel unit 1008 determines whether or not there is a rough road within a predetermined range in front of a vehicle based on a position of the vehicle estimated by a position estimation unit 1001 and a position of a rough road acquired by a map information acquisition unit 1011, and determines whether or not the rough road has been detected based on road surface information acquired by an ou...