US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Sept. 29 for "Electronic control unit and object identification method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,322, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Electronic control unit and object identification method" was invented by Hirotaka Nakamura (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided an electronic control unit comprising an arithmetic unit and a storage device, the electronic control unit includes a data acquisition module configured to acquire external environment data; a data storage module configured to accumulate the external environment data; a data superimposition module configured to superimpose pieces of external environment data, an object region candidate specification...