ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,511, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Route generation device, vehicle control device, and vehicle route distribution system" was invented by Yoshihisa Hiramatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a route generation device, a vehicle control device, and a vehicle route distribution system capable of making an emergency vehicle reach a destination without delay. Provided on a server (100) that generates and distributes route information are a route generation unit (101) that generates route information from map information and destination information of a vehicle, a route in...