US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Sept. 22 for "Route conversion device, route verification program, and teaching data generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,649, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Route conversion device, route verification program, and teaching data generation method" was invented by Tomoaki Watahiki (Tokyo) and Shinichi Amaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a route conversion apparatus which enables, in a case where a first route based on first map data is converted into a second route based on second map data in a range which is narrower than a section of an electronic map, an error of the converted second route to be detected, and conversion into a correct second route to be performed....