ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,186, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Driving assistance device with obstacle collation for travel assistance control" was invented by Takehito Ogata (Schwaig-Oberding, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving assistance device that is safe and convenient in a situation where reverse playback cannot be performed in passing each other on narrow paths or the like. Driving operation of driver and surrounding obstacle information are stored at forward movement. At this time, the information of the front sensor (or the front camera) and the information of the rear sensor are integ...