US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on June 30 for "System and method for vehicle track generation from risk maps" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,349, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"System and method for vehicle track generation from risk maps" was invented by Tatsuhiko Monji (Ibaraki, Japan) and Ryoh Inaba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle electronic controller includes a risk map generating unit that determines a traveling risk level in an area around the vehicle, based on external environment information acquired by an external environment sensor installed in the vehicle, movement information on the vehicle, and map information, and that maps the traveling risk level onto a map to generate a risk map; and a tr...